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You know that feeling of deja vu...

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...that you get when you see something odd that you know you've seen before but just can't place it?

On my way to a job interview this afternoon I hit a rather large crack on the 101. I heard something rattling under the truck and checked the mirror just in time to see it disappear under the car behind me.

Hmm... kinda "L" shaped, maybe 5-6 inches long, black and plastic or metallic... nahh, no idea what that was...

A few miles later and BAM! It was the damn oil breather cap and tube! :eek: The realization hit me so hard I must have had the goofiest look on my face; I wish I could have seen it!

Anyway, now I need another one. Unless someone has a suggestion for an aftermarket replacement.
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Re: You know that feeling of deja vu...

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it's a glitch in the matrix...like when they change something. lol
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Yup. It's deja vu all over again.
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oh that sucks. I hate the feeling that I think im losing parts on the road. I bet the pseron following you was amped.
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LMC? Dennis Carpenter? Your local salvage yard?
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or a decent mr. Gasket replacement.
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Re: You know that feeling of deja vu...

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LMC has these:

http://www.lmctruck.com/icatalog/fb/full.aspx?Page=41

But none of these look like mine did. Mine had kind of a bumpy shape with a hose going from the top of it to the air cleaner.

I suppose any aftermarket one will work, but it won't look right.
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did it look like this?

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Re: You know that feeling of deja vu...

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Nopers.

It looked like the one in Bummer72's pic here (scroll down):

http://www.fordification.com/forum/view ... ap#p587664


And like this one in hedz' pic:

http://www.fordification.com/forum/view ... ap#p560594

The only difference was mine was unpainted, bare, grey metal. And it had a short, maybe 6 inch hose going to the side of the air filter housing.
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The one I posted above looks kinda like the right one to me, I couldn't find a bare metal one yet as this laptop is slow but they do have a chrome one:
http://www.mustangsunlimited.com/itemdy ... y=EMUSTANG
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Re: You know that feeling of deja vu...

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Hey, thanks Jason.

Yeah, those look like the one I lost. I couldn't see the image at work. I wonder how the quality would stack up to the original part.
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