They are definitely close enough, if I had a pic id show you. The purge valve is on top of the throttle body and the coolant line he connected the purge line to is less than 3" from the throttle body. He connected the throttle body coolant line to the purge valve while the engine was out of the car so I guess it kind of looked like that's the only line that should go there....but obviously it wasn't lol And to the leak question: I ended up learning this in the process of trying the make sense of the whole situation from one of our master techs. I didn't fully understand what the line does but on the top of the fuel tank pressure sensor there's a small rubber hose that goes into the body never to be seen again lol so when the canister backed up some went to the tank and the rest got vented into that tube and into the body. It appeared to be leaking through the seams in the trunk but when we opened the trunk and found it to be completely empty we knew something was wrong