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Where do these vacuum lines go?!

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Iirc, just below the iac on the firewall side of the uim, there should be a metal vacuum port with a rubber elbow attached. Coming out of the bottom of the vac. elbow should be 2 small red hard vac. lines. 1 supplies vac. to the fpr on the front fuel rail, the other supplies vac. to evr (egr regulator/solenoid) on the pass. end of the uim. At the evr, there should be the red supply line entering providing vac. to the evr and a green line exiting to supply vac. to the egr valve.
 
After reading your thread, I checked my cellar as I used to have 5-6 of those complete vacuum harnesses but as I feared, they were probably thrown into the trunk of the last gen3 tec I scrapped. At 1 time, between my 3 sons and myself, we had 3 '98 and 3 '99 tecs, but never a purdy green 1, lol. Looks like British Racing Green.
 
Edit: I went back down into the bowels of the cellar and under the east porch I found 2 of the vac. harnesses. They're yours for the cost of shipping if needed. I'm in KC. If interested, pm me a name and address and I'll try to carefully box them up and send them your way. They're complete with all the red/green lines, fittings, boots and elbows. Good shape for being ~25yrs. old, lol!
 
Thank you Sheila!! Let me at least send you something for the postage/gas
My treat. If those small red/green hard lines break from age, temp, etc. you can easily repair them with snug fitting black rubber vacuum hose. Just stick the broken hard line into the rubber vac. line for a "sleeve-splice". A little silicone lube/grease will make the repair go smoother. Or spit, lol.