Mrspencer

WHILE DOING A TUNE UP I NOTICED A PUDDLE OF OIL IN THE VALLEY AROUND THE FRNT INTAKE TUBE, LARGE TUBE GOING FROM INTAKE TO THE CENTER OF THE ENGINE, SORRY FOR THE POOR DESCRIPTION,OF THE ITEM, ANYWAY THE TUBE IS CRACKED AND OIL SOAKED, SO IT'S TIME TO PULL THE INTAKE, CAN SOMEONE PLS DIRECT ME TO THE FORUM FOR THIS PROCEDURE, MANY THANKS IN ADVANCE AS ALWAYS A VERY HELPFUL FORUM.

Landseer

Mike Frye did a solid writeup on 85/6 intake refresh, you might search his name.

Basically its a slow, methodical removal of everything on top, including the wires and the organ pipe tubes. You've got to drain at least some of the coolant as the rear organ pipes are bolted to the cooling system near firewall.
Be **** about keeping stuff from dropping into the engine of course. I spend a lot of time trying to remove the grit with various rigged up vaccum attachments before cracking anything open

Really isn't a shortcut to fixing that breather hose. Check with Roger to see the two breather hoses are available. One has what looks like a pcv valve slipped into it BTW.

The oil fill neck does not need to be removed.

Full top refresh, with valve covers removed requires a bunch more gasket type parts.

There are an awful lot of rubber bits and hoses and such up top, so its hard to decide whether to attack it completely or just fix whats broken.

Mrmerlin

also a possibility your oil fill tube is leaking usually the bolts have come loose,
since your oil fill tube is metal just tightening the oil fill port could fix it

Speedtoys

...your keyboard is broken too..

Mrspencer

Not the keyboard, just the eyes at this age. Hard to see, thanks for pointing that out.

alex70

(OT in OT, but Mrspencer, if you have not tried, look at start/settings/ease of access (win10)/magnifier or high contrast settings just might make the type easier to read for you!)

I too had some oil in the valley and would send out smoke signals after some hard cornering in my S4. Shortly thereafter I did a top/front end refresh: gaskets, knock sens, idle valve, TB/WP etc... Bunch of other stuff. Didn't have that problem again.