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I had this part fail over the weekend. It made a giant mess with coolant water, as you can tell. Anyway, I got the F You" answer from the Ford dealer. The guy said "no part number." That's the best I've heard yet. You're right. Ford built and services that truck with parts that had no number!!
Anyway, this is a 1989 F-35 with a 460. Does anyone know the part number, so I can see about finding some old stock?
Alternatively, and this is a hail Mary, does anyone know how this was made? Is that tube brazed in or mechanically formed into the fitting?
I had this part fail over the weekend. It made a giant mess with coolant water, as you can tell. Anyway, I got the F You" answer from the Ford dealer. The guy said "no part number." That's the best I've heard yet. You're right. Ford built and services that truck with parts that had no number!!
Anyway, this is a 1989 F-35 with a 460. Does anyone know the part number, so I can see about finding some old stock?
Alternatively, and this is a hail Mary, does anyone know how this was made? Is that tube brazed in or mechanically formed into the fitting?
I would just buy a fitting with a pipe with a fitting for a hose. Or check online by just look up "Metal water pump heater hose fitting for 460" Most of the time there on summit or other websites. And I would say it was just a normal fitting like a fuel line. Never have owned a 460 but the ones I worked on was a Modified that had a press in fitting.
That pipe was welded together
I don't think it was brazed
I would hit the junkyard for a good one or just use a piece of threaded pipe from Home Depot
You could braze up a new one yourself pretty easy
You could drill that existing pipe out of your existing fitting
Then weld or braze a new piece of pipe in there from a heater hose setup you can still buy from Ford or anywhere else
What I do is go up to AZ and ask to go back and look at their heater hose selection (I have to "make" hoses for old BMWs sometimes)
Stuff this old is not fun to look up, it looks like it was either E8TZ-18B402-A or E9TZ-18B402-B. The trouble is there's really no illustrations and of course they're LONG discontinued.
I had this part fail over the weekend. It made a giant mess with coolant water, as you can tell. Anyway, I got the F You" answer from the Ford dealer. The guy said "no part number." That's the best I've heard yet. You're right. Ford built and services that truck with parts that had no number!!
Anyway, this is a 1989 F-35 with a 460. Does anyone know the part number, so I can see about finding some old stock?
Alternatively, and this is a hail Mary, does anyone know how this was made? Is that tube brazed in or mechanically formed into the fitting?
Cut it flush and debur the opening, then put a flare if you have a flaring tool large enough to mushroom the opening, do so, if you do not , you can probably tap it with a large tap, then screw in a fitting that adapts to pipe thread for a nipple if you want the hose to be shorter, use red lock tite. If it doesnt seem strong enough to support this operation, then follow what was suggested abiove about a new nipple
Just use a hose coil to support the hose arc over the alternator or use corrugated harness conduit to protect it from rubbing against the alternator
Heres a link to amazon for a A coil, not sure the size of your hose or the one in the link, but the suggested products below have a variety of sizes for you
Last edited by AuroraGirl; Apr 10, 2026 at 01:46 PM.
Cut it flush and debur the opening, then put a flare if you have a flaring tool large enough to mushroom the opening, do so, if you do not , you can probably tap it with a large tap, then screw in a fitting that adapts to pipe thread for a nipple if you want the hose to be shorter, use red lock tite. If it doesnt seem strong enough to support this operation, then follow what was suggested abiove about a new nipple
Just use a hose coil to support the hose arc over the alternator or use corrugated harness conduit to protect it from rubbing against the alternator
I would run a new one. That one looks well rotted through so its probably thin. Wouldn't be surprised if it blew open under pressure. I would do that on my farm rig though
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