Alright, yesterday while I am at work, wife calls me up and tells me the Ex is leaking coolant. I got home a little before dark and looked at it. Right behind the front passenger fender well, it appears that either a bolt came out of a bracket, or someone took it off for something and was too lazy to put it on, allowing the metal elbows to swing over and rub on a bracket. So now I have a hole in that elbow, and I need to the excursion for our trip over Christmas leave.
Does anyone know where I might get an elbow to replace that one? Also, anyone happen to know the bolt size for that heater hose bracket to keep it from happening again?
If I can't find one pretty soon, I will have to JBWeld or something it temporarily to hold us through until after Christmas. Thanks guys

 

Going to need a little more information such as year and engine size. Also need to know if you have auxilliary heat/air. Also need to know where this hose is coming from and going to.

 

Had a little more time to look at it this afternoon. Did not realize the heater lines were aluminum all the way back. Bolt came out of a bracket and allowed the tubing to rub on the back of the shock bracket. Probably just going to get spliced with a piece of rubber heater hose for now. When I looked at it in the fading light last night, it looked like an aluminum elbow between two lengths of rubber, but I saw that is not the case today.

Related note, has anyone purchased a replacement heater line from Ford? How much did it cost? This is one that runs all the way to the back.

Also, sorry, thought I had a signature with all that info, dunno where it went. 2000 EX XLT 4x4 6.8

 

The hoses are obsolete through Ford. I'm at home so I can not check to see if any dealers may still have one.

 

Haha, that figures. Rubber hose it is then. If you get a chance to look for one, I'd appreciate it, but not a huge deal. Thanks

 

Not a dealer in the county shows it in stock.

 

Thanks a bunch! Rubber hose splice seems to be doing ok. I was a little worried about it because it was so close to that elbow, and the tubing gets smaller through the bend, but it seems to have sealed up ok. Used two hose clamps on the elbow to help ensure. Took more time trying to get to the leak than it did to splice it up, haha.

Out of curiousity, what was the part number for that hose?