Help, I need a part and don't know the name!!!

[Sunshyne]

Hi, everyone. I really need some help.

So, I need a part for my 2000 Ford Explorer XLT (5.0L), but I don't know the name of it, or where I can get a replacement part from(a little hard to do when you don't know the name of it to begin with).

The guy working on my truck thinks it's called a "heater core rail or heater core tube". But when I go places to look for it (junkyards) they don't know what i'm talking about.
I only just got pictures of the badly rusted part after he finally got it off.

Any help would really be appreciated. I have been without the truck since July, and it is starting to get cold in Philadelphia, and I hate to have the kids standing outside waiting for the school bus.

Thanks

Hopefully the pictures show up correctly.

 

[swshawaii]

Illustrations, complete part numbers, and descriptions shown. (Use VIN for accuracy)

http://parts.autonationfordwhitebearlake.com/

 

[SoHK_alumni]

Quick and inexpensive solution is to abandon the throttle body heater (those two little hoses), remove the fitting on the intake manifold, replace it with a hose nipple and run generic heater hose to/from the heater core to the nipple on the water pump and new nipple on the manifold. -- might be possible to use the broken bit of pipe on that manifold fitting as is for the hose nipple.

A bit cheesier solution is to slip a length of heater hose over the two broken ends and clamp it into place. Even quicker and less expensive but given the condition of the pipes, perhaps not a long term solution.

If you do decide to replace that length of pipe, I do have one on an engine I'm prepping for an install that won't need it. I'll look around, might have the needed -114 and -116 o-rings for it too. My bad, poor memory, those o-rings are -014 and -016!!!!!

 

[bill06447]

I've replaced that pipe on my Mustang with red hi temp heater hose. Been 3 years with no issues.

Bill

 

[RomeovilleIL]

9D424 -- F77Z9D424BA
5.0 97-01 Intake Heater Tube Assembly

If one is in stock:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/F77Z9D424BA...es&hash=item5b036ac4b3&vxp=mtr#ht_2085wt_1124

 

[Sunshyne]

Thanks you guys!!!! I wish I had known about this site back in July. Hopefully now I can get this fixed.