Today my front heater hose sprung a leak. Is there any way to replace it without draining the entire system?
Changing front heater hoses?
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John McVicker
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Pre cut your new hose one section at a time...slip new hose clamps on each end.
Work both ends of the old hose loose...so it will easily slip off.
Remove the old hose, one end at a time, slip on the new hose, one end at a time. Hardly any mess.
John
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Can someone tell me what the ID of the hose should be?
I used 5/8" ID. Be sure to use higher quality heater hose so you will not have to do this again for a long time. Goodyear is known to last. I bought my heater hose at a specialty brake shop.
On the driver side engine block (F engine) their is a valve that closes the flow to the heater block. I still lost about 1-2 quarts of coolant from hose and flow back.
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What about on the 2F?
John McVicker
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