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For any newbies, heater hoses are the ones from the firewall to the engine. They feed hot coolant (now there's a bit of a contradiction!) into the car's heater core to provide heat for your tushies in the winter.
I can't find anyone who stocks Festiva heater hoses. Not even Ford had them.
Mine were old looking. I wanted new ones. I had to slit them anyway to get them off the firewall pipes.
The ones that looked "shaped right" in the store weren't.
So today I just bought straight hose and began fitting the right side. That's the one to the pipe under the intake manifold. I started with about 26" and cut it and cut it until it is now about 19 inches.
It "curliques" down from the firewall pipe and drops to around the top of the oil pan and curls back up to the intake pipe. Although it slightly "ovals" a bit, nothing is squished and it looks like it will work. Think of a pig's tail. (This also follows the slight curve of the hose as it came off the spool.)
(The original hose was maybe under 10" long and it was bent to fit right.)
Those in the know, am I messing anything up by doing it this way?
Karl
I can't find anyone who stocks Festiva heater hoses. Not even Ford had them.
Mine were old looking. I wanted new ones. I had to slit them anyway to get them off the firewall pipes.
The ones that looked "shaped right" in the store weren't.
So today I just bought straight hose and began fitting the right side. That's the one to the pipe under the intake manifold. I started with about 26" and cut it and cut it until it is now about 19 inches.
It "curliques" down from the firewall pipe and drops to around the top of the oil pan and curls back up to the intake pipe. Although it slightly "ovals" a bit, nothing is squished and it looks like it will work. Think of a pig's tail. (This also follows the slight curve of the hose as it came off the spool.)
(The original hose was maybe under 10" long and it was bent to fit right.)
Those in the know, am I messing anything up by doing it this way?
Karl
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