Cracked Coolant Hose, Replacements?

[duke16]

It looks like one of my coolant hoses has cracked. Once the truck gets up to temperature, and the thermostat opens, **** starts spraying EVERYWHERE. Now, I'm going to go ahead and replace all the hoses... but some of them look pre-bent, like the one coming from the top of the engine. How do I get replacement ones of those?

 

[nssj2]

any auto parts store has them to fit your specific vehicle

 

[duke16]

Do they sell like a pack of all the hoses? Or just each individual hose?

 

[shamaal]

If we're talking about the radiator hoses (the big ones with all the bends), then yes they come individually and preshaped. You will need your car model, year, transmission type (auto/manual) and size/type of engine for them to give you the correct hose. The heater hoses and such are sold by the foot.

 

[Paraphoe]

Yep, they're right. Any place like Pep Boys, etc. will carry them. Just give them details on your vehicle and make sure you know which hose it is, upper or lower, etc.

 

[duke16]

Is there a diagram somewhere that shows all the hoses and direction of flow? I found the one with the hole, but I'm not sure what it's for... it's very short, yet wide and pre-bent. I figure I'll replace them all at once, but a diagram that has all the hoses listed would be really helpful so I can take that in to Autozone.

 

[cgriffin_5139]

Bottom rad hose flows to the water pump, water pump flows to engine, out the top rad hose to the rad. Do you have any pics of the hose in ?

 

[Turdle]

Duke--can you post a picture please?

 

[duke16]

Here's a picture of the little hose with the hole, and another for reference.

- EDIT -
Actually, I think I just figured out what it is... it's the thermostat housing.. correct?

 

[Turdle]

Yep-that hose , and all the others should be available--I though you had a leak between the oil cooler and water pump (lower large hoses) .

If you could find an elbow hose of the same diameter-it can be trimmed down.

Now as for the lower radiator hoses-yes there are 2--one runs from radator to the oil cooler, and a short one from the cooler to the water pump. Look those over good also--the short one is a PITA to change, because the oil cooler will need to be loosened.--if you need help let me know.

 

[duke16]

Well I took the thermostat housing off and removed the thermostat, so I could do a full flush. And some how the threads on the left nut of the housing got messed up. The nut keeps on wanting to go back in at an angle. I just can't get it straight. I don't understand how it happened, as soon as I saw it wasn't going in straight the first time, I pulled it out. Unfortunately, there just doesn't seem to be enough room to get my hand and wrench in there. I'm not sure what I'm going to do now if I can't fix these threads.

 

[Turdle]

Well I took the thermostat housing off and removed the thermostat, so I could do a full flush. And some how the threads on the left nut of the housing got messed up. The nut keeps on wanting to go back in at an angle. I just can't get it straight. I don't understand how it happened, as soon as I saw it wasn't going in straight the first time, I pulled it out. Unfortunately, there just doesn't seem to be enough room to get my hand and wrench in there. I'm not sure what I'm going to do now if I can't fix these threads.

Go to parts store and ask for a "heli coil" set, of the proper size.
Take the bolt in, they will find helicoil, tap and bolt which will fix it--

 

[duke16]

Actually I think I got a straighten out now. But thanks.

I must be missing something though. Do I need to remove something else to be able to get to this? I still have to tighten the lower right bolt which I can hardly get to.

 

[duke16]

Well as it turned out Advance only had the upper hose and little one that had the hole in it, so I didn't bother with the lower hoses. I'll cross that river when I need to I guess.

Thanks for the help.