Q: Throttle body hose

asked by on March 11, 2018

Where do the three hoses the connect to the throttle body run to mainly the one in pointed towards firewall? I think it would be the coolant return hose there is only two lines hooked up trying to figure out where the third one runs to again there is no hose to trace.

My car has 236000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.

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