so after many pictures and pulling parts off ive found my problem... the "heater water bypass inlet pipe is busted... how do i pull the tension off to clean the crud out of it? and is this hard to fix or easy? all help and answers are aprreciated...

before the piece broke off and most of the rtv scraped out of the area


this is after the piece broke of and when i figured out what was really wrong with my car...

 

looks like the plastic elbow. what motor is this. 3800

 

yes it is.. after getting the thing back together i ran around the neighborhood and the check engine light came on... i got home and checked the codes and its giving me a p0302 2nd cylinder misfiring, i have no idea what that means, and the second code is the p1406? pintle issue in the egr... 230 for a egr here, gonna see if a buddy will get me a used one in bama and send it to me....

what do i do to check the misfiring of cylinder 2? i was going to start by checking the plugs and wires, then from there i have no idea what to check.... im not sure if this car has ever had a tune up in all its life.. is there anything special i should get besides plugs,plug wires, air filter?...

 

plugs and plug wires is a good idea if they look old. if you had coolant spraying around then making sure your connections are all dry.

 

ok.. cool thats the easy part... the hard part is going to be sourcing parts and getting them here... shipping to hawaii is a beast and parts here are stupid expensive sometimes... do you know of any good online used parts places besides ebay?.. thanks...