So i got my pickup back from the local TMA on friday after getting a ne catalytic converter, new muffler, and a new exhaust manifold for $661.44, or something like that. The old exhaust manifold looked like it was twisted. The crack went almost all of the way around and had several cracks coming off of the main one. After seeing such a severe problem i hoped that my pickup would now run fine, but it still runs like shit on idle. The rpms jump from about 600 to 900 and the engine nearly dies sometimes. When i turn on the air conditioning it worsens the idle even more. It sounds like a V8 with big cam, you know kinda lopey. So after a couple of days of sulking i got a hair up my ass to figure it out, and today when i take a look at the engine i notice that a hose that is supposed to be hooked to the back of the exhaust manifold is not. I'm thinking it's the EGR tube but i'm not sure, it runs over to a diaphram thing on the other side of the engine behind the carb. Now i don't know if they tried to hook that up or not, but theres a shitty looking piece of hose on there that looks like garden hose and the idiots couldn't even cut it good. There are also two hose clamps that a lose but in position. I'm going to hook it up appropriately and see it fixes the problem. What do you guys think, will it fix it? I'm also going to start a new thread so we can bitch about the quality of work we hire out anymore.