Looking for the end of a vacuum line. (Where does it go?)

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I think I have found a cut in the vacuum hose from the vacuum reservoir on the fender of my '71 300. But I can't quite tell where the hose routes to so I can replace it.
Does anyone know where this routes to? It is the line with the green stripe.
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Thank you,
Todd
 
I think I have found a cut in the vacuum hose from the vacuum reservoir on the fender of my '71 300. But I can't quite tell where the hose routes to so I can replace it.
Does anyone know where this routes to? It is the line with the green stripe.
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Thank you,
Todd

The hose with the green stripe routes back to and through the firewall to feed the control switch assembly:

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Cool, thank you. If you had a leak in this hose, would it effect engine performance at all? I am tracing what feels like an intermittent engine miss.
 
Cool, thank you. If you had a leak in this hose, would it effect engine performance at all? I am tracing what feels like an intermittent engine miss.

Depending on the size of the leak in the green striped hose, it could affect the engine, but likely less than if the leak was in the line from the reservoir to the engine, or with a leaky reservoir itself. The reservoir could act as a buffer of sorts for the green striped hose and other potential leaks in the control switch and other under dash vacuum connections.

A small leak in the green striped hose likely would not contribute to an intermittent engine miss, but if enough of a leak, it could cause a leaner condition and potentially higher idle speed.
 
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