Cowl Vent Tubes

[darwink1]

If you dont mind drilling a hole into your tranny hump all of those ds bends can be deleted. Mine runs straight down now. Found random hoses in the garage that worked mint.

Im guessing by the book resto guys wont be drillin holes lol.

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[NovemberNoLast]

i can look up the packing slip from were i got them from when i get home this evening. irrc i got one meter and cut it in half.
pretty sure the company is in the states, but yes it is german metric heater hose.



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do you still have the floor grommets that the drain tubes pass through? if so, do the hoses you refer to in your belmetric link pass through easily or did you have to remove them or make modifications?

 

[brian]

i removed them due to the poor condition of them.
the hoses would not fit through the oem grommets, if they were still available.
the hoses nearly fill the hole with no grommet. they are so thick that i have no concern about any abrasion or wear through issues.

 

[bkdraft]

I bought mine from Racer65, highly recommend them. Excellent quality and fit.

 

[NovemberNoLast]

I bought mine from Racer65, highly recommend them. Excellent quality and fit.

Thanks for the recommendation but Racers are only through '74 and I have a '76. He can't make the later model drains (that are just straight) until he has an oem pair to model after

 

[Fast Eddy]

Reviving this old thread. My fj40 is a '76.

i removed them due to the poor condition of them.
the hoses would not fit through the oem grommets, if they were still available.
the hoses nearly fill the hole with no grommet. they are so thick that i have no concern about any abrasion or wear through issues.

I had one of the two drain tubes (driver's) and it was rotten and full of black swamp crap. I got some 7/8" heater hose from Ace, stretched out the end using various garage-y methods and with some grease and foul language got it over the cowl end of the fitting. With one size longer bolt I got the original firewall clamp to go around it and clamp nicely, right about how it was supposed to go. It not being pre-molded

It wouldn't fit into my original grommet that was in ok shape for 45yo rubber. I reamed it out with a sandpaper drum on a dremel tool until it fit tight. I didn't check to see if I had a grommet on the other side, but I would guess so.

Thanks for the recommendation but Racers are only through '74 and I have a '76. He can't make the later model drains (that are just straight) until he has an oem pair to model after

Like I said, I have 2 remnants of the driver's side with about 1" missing that was lost trying to get it out of the firewall clamp. I can fish it out of the waste basket in the garage and send it along if you (@Racer65) want it. I don't have the passenger side and I haven't replaced that one yet. I could make a fair guess as to it's shape once I get under there.

My rig is on a slide driver's-side-down slope and the rain will run nicely down that one tube until I pull it out to where I can work on the other side without hating my existence.

 

[Racer65]

Reviving this old thread. My fj40 is a '76.



I had one of the two drain tubes (driver's) and it was rotten and full of black swamp crap. I got some 7/8" heater hose from Ace, stretched out the end using various garage-y methods and with some grease and foul language got it over the cowl end of the fitting. With one size longer bolt I got the original firewall clamp to go around it and clamp nicely, right about how it was supposed to go. It not being pre-molded

It wouldn't fit into my original grommet that was in ok shape for 45yo rubber. I reamed it out with a sandpaper drum on a dremel tool until it fit tight. I didn't check to see if I had a grommet on the other side, but I would guess so.



Like I said, I have 2 remnants of the driver's side with about 1" missing that was lost trying to get it out of the firewall clamp. I can fish it out of the waste basket in the garage and send it along if you (@Racer65) want it. I don't have the passenger side and I haven't replaced that one yet. I could make a fair guess as to it's shape once I get under there.

My rig is on a slide driver's-side-down slope and the rain will run nicely down that one tube until I pull it out to where I can work on the other side without hating my existence.

Everything is available for all years now.

Drain hoses for your '76

Grommets

 

[martymart]

I used new bicycle inner tubes and it worked well for me. Used the thorn proof tubes for the thicker rubber.

 

[zerotreedelta]

The '76 reproductions weren't around when I did mine. 5/8" heater hose worked decently, but I needed to use a carbide to thin out the inside up top where it'd slide on, as that's closer to 3/4"...but the 5/8" tubing routed better OD-wise through the trans tunnel grommets. The original tubing is much thinner than heater hose, hence the ID/OD twiddling.

 

[graham5david]

Cityracerllc.com for the win. 5 minute job to swap them out. Worth the 80 dollars.

 

[Aloha Jen]

Everything is available for all years now.

Drain hoses for your '76

Grommets

Do these that you sell for the ‘75 need to be trimmed? One is much longer then the other, just curious the reason for this.

 

[fcgadget]

couldn't get my large hands on the driver's side hose, so I corked it