If anyone knows what this part is please let me know

Here is a link to an image of the part

http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m...Untitled-1.jpg

It has 2 vacuum hoses comming from it. I can not trace one of them and the other looks as if it goes to the air intake system.

IF you can't tell I don't know much about this car.

This part is located on the passanger side of the car.

It is making a ticking sound and smells as if it is buring up inside. Nothing is open at this time today being a holiday to see if autozone or some other place many know what it is.

There are some numbers on the top of it but doing a google search turns up nothing 3484-6-17

 

The part in question is a duty cycle evap purge solenoid valve. It regulates the rate of vapor flow from the evap canister to the throttle body.

I hope this helps.

 

they usually dont go bad so you can pick one from a junk yard for a buc or two that will be reliable

 

I have a spare one in my garage that I will give you if you want to wait for it.

 

The ticking noise is completely normal. As for the smell... what does it smell like?

 

I sent the image to one of my friends also, he said it was the EGR VALVE. Said it runs around 50 from a parts store. He told me how to try and clean it out first so I am going to try that tomorrow.

The smell is something like a mix between burning rubber or plastic to buring wires. The smell is not there at all until the clicking noise shows up. The clicking is not there till about 2 min after you start it up. I will also note that it is at idle in park that it shows up.

If cleaning doesn't work I will look for a junk yard. I am not going to pay 50 or more for this thing. This car past its last leg years ago. It a base 95 plymouth neon with somewhere around 160-180,000 miles on it.

Stod4, You say you have a spare. What would you want for shipping and all that?

Thanks for all of your replys.

 

thats not an egr valveif your egr dose go you can just put on blockoffs

 

Ok well I took the part off and on the bottom of it I have the numbers 4669475. Does that still line up with the evap valve? Can I still try to clean it? He told me to clean it with carb cleaner.

 

indygeek79...........check your inbox.

 

If the ticking or clicking is normal then I guess the smell may be from somewhere else in that area. Is there any sure way of testing that part to see if it is bad? I will put it in the garage tomorrow when I get home from work and look it over again.