Radiator hoses? Custom or do parts stores carry enough variants to find one?
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Radiator hoses? Custom or do parts stores carry enough variants to find one?
Getting ready to put the engine in the Panoz (see build thread in sig). The radiator is a custom dual pass unit with the inlet/outlet on the passenger side. The radiator will sit further from the engine then you normal F-body/Y-body arrangement. Looking at various pictures I see all different kinds of hose routing and a few that look like they'd work for my application. So are you specing them out and ordering them, or do parts stores carry a bunch of different types? I've never bought a radiator hose other than a replacement upper for a C5 and I bought that through an online site.
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Brian
EDIT... I found wrapping paper tube, old radiator hoses, Gorilla tape, and metal pipe to be more accurate than coat hanger. Need to clamp the joints and go hunting. The shapes aren't overly complex.
Thanks,
Brian
EDIT... I found wrapping paper tube, old radiator hoses, Gorilla tape, and metal pipe to be more accurate than coat hanger. Need to clamp the joints and go hunting. The shapes aren't overly complex.
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The people at Oreilly's by me know me by name, so I always get to go in back and pick out the hoses I want, I take a piece of heat riser tubing (the corrugated aluminum kind) bent to the shape I need, and know what sizes the ends need to be, with me and show them and say I need a hose like this, and they always say, you know where they're at!
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Dayco has an on line look up tool that shows pictures
http://www.accessdayco.com/Dimensional.aspx
Gates has the same thing but requires a free registration
http://www.gates.com/login/register....omotivecatalog
http://www.accessdayco.com/Dimensional.aspx
Gates has the same thing but requires a free registration
http://www.gates.com/login/register....omotivecatalog
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I got some nice metal junctions from JTR. They also sell adapters whic worked nice for the 3/4" - 5/8" transition on the heater hoses. They do an adapter that has a bleeder, site glass, and you can get it with the steam vent.
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As far as useful input: I had to go thru several parts stores hose inventory to find the hoses for my Nova swap. None of the parts stores around here seemed to mind. Good hunting!
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Did the same thing these guys did. 45 minutes later, I came out of autozone with a radiator hose that fit a 93' lexus and 63' Nova with an LS6 Swap. Oh, and a Land Rover lower hose. happy hunting!
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for those that may be looking for a good fitting upper hose, you just about can't get any better than this hose here. i'm using this on my thirdgen with an ls swap too, so it's a pretty awesome hose. i see no reason why it wouldn't work with a traditional truck pump also. it won't work with ly6 or ls3 style pump though. gates pn 20893
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Guess I was real lucky....stock radiator in my 68 and using the stock truck set-up....just used the truck hoses.
I was thinking of going with the metal flex lines if that didn't work.
I was thinking of going with the metal flex lines if that didn't work.