powdercoating valve cover

trying to get my extra valve cover powdercoated.. but i need to get the one hose "nipple" inlet off the top.. how the hell does it come off? someone help need to try and take this tomarrow to get done.

i just pulled mine out

you may have to destroy it to get it out, i had to do it to mine because the rubber gets so hard from being cooked/old....just order another one from toyota, or replace it with a high temp rubber grommet.

thats what i ended up doing ....destroying the rubber part. didnt figure out what it was until i was reading in the haynes manual. found i can replace both the pcv valve and the rubber part for under 10 bucks. the cover is being powdercoated red as we speak.