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I was driving a few days ago in my '91 Festiva and smelled anti-freeze and looking under the hood noticed a leak spraying coolant on the front of the motor coming from a small hose from the head between the temperature sending unit and the thermoswitch for the cooling fan and that went to a metal pipe going across the front of the motor.
At a local parts store here they didn't have any coolant hose that small so I used fuel line hose and a longer length than the preformed hose I replaced so that I could make the tight corner of the old hose without having the new one have a kink in it.
There seems to be quite a few smaller coolant hoses on the motor like the one I replaced so with them all being about fifteen years old I'm imagining I should think about replacing the others too.(though not in places where they may be getting as much heat as that little hose that leaked) I've already replaced the lower radiator hose that had begun to fail from age.
I'm wondering if fuel line hose is acceptable or if I should try to find coolant specific hose? I know replacing heater hoses on other water-cooled motors that often the available replacement hose was of a better quality than stock. Its sure no fun to have a hose fail and suddenly lose all of the coolant. I haven't checked with Ford to see if they have any Festiva specific hoses, but imagine other sources might be less expensive and perhaps better quality?
The little hose I've already replaced with fuel line hose seemed the tightest angle of them all, but the systems around the Idle Speed Control-Bypass Air[ISC-BPA] seem to involve all sorts of small hoses carrying coolant and since the ISC-BPA on my car has never worked and seems to not affect much of anything in the mild climate where I live they all seem pretty superfluous though threatening if they were to fail and so worthy of replacement whenever that is convenient.(?)
At a local parts store here they didn't have any coolant hose that small so I used fuel line hose and a longer length than the preformed hose I replaced so that I could make the tight corner of the old hose without having the new one have a kink in it.
There seems to be quite a few smaller coolant hoses on the motor like the one I replaced so with them all being about fifteen years old I'm imagining I should think about replacing the others too.(though not in places where they may be getting as much heat as that little hose that leaked) I've already replaced the lower radiator hose that had begun to fail from age.
I'm wondering if fuel line hose is acceptable or if I should try to find coolant specific hose? I know replacing heater hoses on other water-cooled motors that often the available replacement hose was of a better quality than stock. Its sure no fun to have a hose fail and suddenly lose all of the coolant. I haven't checked with Ford to see if they have any Festiva specific hoses, but imagine other sources might be less expensive and perhaps better quality?
The little hose I've already replaced with fuel line hose seemed the tightest angle of them all, but the systems around the Idle Speed Control-Bypass Air[ISC-BPA] seem to involve all sorts of small hoses carrying coolant and since the ISC-BPA on my car has never worked and seems to not affect much of anything in the mild climate where I live they all seem pretty superfluous though threatening if they were to fail and so worthy of replacement whenever that is convenient.(?)
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