I am currently in the process of changing my rear rocker cover gasket and one of the pipes that go onto the side of it has snapped.

Its the pipe that goes from the right hand side of the front rocker cover into the back right hand side of the rear rocker cover.

Now i can probally do a dodgey with tape for the time being, but i just want to know how important is this pipe?

Sounds like the oil breather pipe...?

She'll be right mate...fix it when you can, if it leaks car will run rough and stall is my best guess...

I wasnt sure whether the breather was the one on the left or the right.

on the ride hand side, when your looking at it as if your fixing the engine or when your sitting in the drivers seat?

on the ride hand side, when your looking at it as if your fixing the engine or when your sitting in the drivers seat?

Right hand side if your fixing the engine.

On pass side of 6G74 there is a pipe from front to back - equaliser from rocker cover to rocker cover. On drivers side is similar pipe from rocker cover into air-intake - recycles "blow-by" into combustion chambers (this is the one with PCV valve). They both get brittle with age/heat/oily fumes inside them. I'm with Blackstar - you can prob bodgey it up as a stop-gap, but aim to replace asap. It's no big deal - esp on the pass side, but will blow fumey crap all around your engine bay if a bodgy fix comes apart. If the drivers side one broke you'd be more likely to get rough running or stalling. Also, as a stop gap, any convenient bit of tubing will do the job.

Ok thanks heaps guy, i will aim to get a new equalizer hose, on either tuesday or wednesday.

i used a length of heater hose as a stopgap measure. fuel rated hose is best , just that i couldnt get any 12mm stuff on a sunday.