Basically I want to know what this little rubber thing is on my engine. Its located on the driver side of the engine. It has vacuum lines attached to it. Not quite sure what it is. It seems my vacuum leak is stemming from this little rubber thing and i want to replace it along with my vacuum lines.

That would be your vacuum manifold. That will be hard to find. Try looking at a salvage yard. Take a look here, http://www.trademotion.com/partlocat...&siteid=214638 This site has a lot of hard to find parts.

thanks. this should be fun to find. a 16 year old piece of rubber that isnt cracked.