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Is this an IAC leak ?

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4.6andSlicks

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I believe I have a vacuum leak somewhere so I took a stethoscope and listened around the gaskets and IAC. There's a button that sticks out the back side of the IAC that definitely is taking in air.

Is this the normal air inlet for the IAC? I thought the IAC just bypassed the throttle body with intake air from the CAI.
 
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It does. But it does produce an internal whistling as a lot of air flows through it and the opening is closed down to something pretty small. Using a stethoscope, you might well be hearing internal whistling rather than an external leak...

Try some tape to see if the leak "stops". I'll bet it probably will not.
 
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