OK I am going to be a ***** here.

Go buy $5 worth of 3/4" by 1/8 medium carbon steel and make one. OR........

Go to a junkyard and find one?

This is somthing so unbelivable simple to make that I cannot figure why you would spend money to buy one?

I have seen hose brackets like that on 70s chevys, 60s fords, and 80s dodges. Look and you will find.

Or simply go buy two copper hooks for 3/4" pipe and notch and solder them together.

 

I had some for sale a while back but no takers. I still have a half dozen or so originals and also reproduced them but its just not worth my time.

I dont think jegs or summit is the place to look.. LOL

 

Well, *****, I am not as old as most of you fellows in here are. I already told you I can't find any in the junkyard, and it shouldn't be too surprising that most of them have either rotted away or were already taken by now.

I would spend the money to buy one for a few reasons. First, I am just out of college, married, and I am living in my first apartment. I don't have a shop to make one, the tools, nor the experience or know-how to make something like that. I wouldn't know where to start to begin making the rolled ends, and I don't know what "medium carbon steel" is or what it means to "solder" them together. I suspect you use a welder for that, which I don't have nor know how to use. In case you have forgotten, NO ONE is born with these skills; you have to learn someplace, *****.

I spend a LOT of time over in the 1980-1986 forums, and the guys there are extremely knowledgeable, helpful, and friendly. If I or someone else would have asked a question like that, someone would have come along and told them 1.) what years that bracket was available, 2.) if it was still available from Ford, 3.) where to find a similar one aftermarket, or 3.) helpful hints on how to make one yourself.

I can't believe how much the opposite is true here in the 1961-1966 forum. This is my first post here, and frankly, I can't believe the rude responses I have gotten for a simple question:

Don't worry; I won't bother coming back to the 1961-1966 forums again.

 

1961/72 F100/1100 & 1969/74 Econoline: DOUZ18481A .. Heater Hose Bracket / Obsolete

No Ford Dealer or obsolete parts vendor has any.

Lariat 85: One thing you aren't taking into account. While 1948/79's used 5/8" I.D. heater hose, some 1980 and later trucks had one hose that was 5/8" another that was 3/4."

 

Its YOU who came on here with an attitude, then the typical name calling starts and you expect US to bend over backwards for you?

I tried to be nice and said I had a half dozen extra's floating around and it was a hint that if you asked NICE I may just send you a pair. Give me about 15-20 minutes time and I could have made you a pair that were pretty exact and not the originals I would have sent you.

So how is that attitude working out for you?

I said it was not really worth my time advertising them for what people were willing to pay. In actual, right now there is probably not a single part for a 65-66 that I DO NOT have floating around. I have decided its just not worth my time to sell/ship anything. On some occasions when the buyer is not going around calling people here ****** I will sell them something. But it sure is fun HOGGING all those parts! LOL

So, On those brackets... WOuld you like me to post a detailed pic of what they look like? In replated form, a slight used looking form or a pic of a stack of them?

By the way I have a BUNCH of NOS parts for a 1986 F series pickup. Things like stripe kits, dash bezels...

 

Thanks, NumberDummy. Both heater hoses on my '85 are 5/8".I came in here with an attitude? I suggest you go back and re-read this thread. All I did was visit this forum and ask about the heater hose bracket that is used on the 1961-1966 generation of trucks.

And then, it was you who gave this LAME answer in response:

NumberDummy said these were found on the 1961 - 1974 F100s and Econolines, and are not produced by Ford anymore. That makes them 36 years old, minimum. That doesn't make them available in every corner drug store, now does it? Like you said, they are not sold at Summit or Jegs, so I guess that does not make them "simple to find" right?

Here I am looking for this bracket, and this is your response back to me? When you say "its just not worth my time," that doesn't give me a "hint" or inspire any confidence on asking anything of you, much less buying anything from you.

No where did you say that, Boss9F100.

Why didn't you mention that when I was asked the first time and said that I couldn't find these anywhere, instead of accusing me of not looking?

I didn't expect anyone to bend over backwards; what I expected was common courtesy and respect, and to be talked to like a man.

 

Every truck i've ever owned has had one of these brackets on it, including the ones at boneyards. if yo ucant find one make it. it's just a flat piece of metal bent in two curves and screwed to the apron. 20 minutes with a piece of metal and it's painted and mounted.. as far as buying one. good luck there, it,s not one of those wear out and replace pieces. maybe back in the 60's or 70's you could get a new one . not now Dutch

 

Please dont, I am 27 myself only 4 years out of college and have a wife two kids and a mortgage.

Try rolling the ends with a 7/8 socket and a hammer. Medium carbon steel is simple. Go to a steel yard and ask for it. If you dont know how to solder or do very simple tasks like that you probobly should pay somone else to work on your truck.

I was simply being a ***** because four people had told you what to do. GO MAKE IT OR FIND ONE.

I aint your mommy. I will tell you how to do it. But YOU need to DO IT.
The definition of stupidity is doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting a different result.

Please, Go find someone to give you your binky and find a dam,n mechanic to do your work.

Love,
The *****.

 

Boy, did this get slightly out of hand...

 

I don't know why you didn't just say that the first time, flipklos. This was at least somewhat helpful.

You just can't stop being a *****, can you? Was that comment really necessary? Bolting and unbolting parts, changing fluids and belts and adjusting carburetors has absolutely nothing to do with fabricating steel or soldering, does it? Between my wife and I, we have four (4) vehicles between us. The oldest is a 1985, and the newest is a 2001, and I have yet to solder anything on any of them.

You are indeed being a ***** in this thread, flipklos. It sounds like you don't understand English, either. I will say it again: telling someone "GO MAKE IT OR FIND ONE" is not being helpful! And if you do not want to be helpful, you need to find something else to do with your time, because you obviously are not skilled at posting on forums like these. I have over 1,000 posts on this site, and not once have I acted like a "*****" and talked down to someone the way you have to me on this particular thread.

The definition of being a ***** is talking down to someone when they are trying to learn something, when you had to learn at some point yourself.

Again, was that comment really necessary? Go find yourself a lemon to suck on and find a psychiatrist to help you stop being a *****.

 

Time to let it rest, kiddo.

I've spoken with you and flipklos on the phone. Both of y'all are pleasant and knowledgeable in your fields of truck ownership.

flipklos used the P word describing himself...not you.

And...if you're going to correct grammar, punctuation and spelling here on FTE in every post you read, you won't have much time to do anything else. It's the internet, not a classroom.

btw: When the automotive press previewed the 1958 Edsel, they said it looked like an Oldsmobile sucking a lemon!

 

I am trying to stress only the point that no one can solve this but you.

When someone is on this forum I assume they have some level of common sense and competence mechanicly. I would think that most folks here can figure a way to make a simple hose bracket. Personaly, I use zipties.

Go ahead and be angry, I aint taking any darned offence. I could give to chits less.


Go buy yourself a 6" length of 1/8 by 1.5" 1045 coldroll steel.

Find the middle and drill a 3/16" hole in the exact middle.

Find a socket that is just slightly smaller then your 5/8 heater hose.

Using a vise start bending both ends into the shape. Finish using the socket as a dolly.

If you have access to a acetyline torch just get it glowing red and bend it around the socket.

I realy think that this is a fairly simple piece. I would assume one can make it. Stop looking at jegs and start taking stuff apart. Just make sure you can get it back trogether there kiddo.

 

I have a BBA and plenty of common sense, but I'm sorry to say I do fall a bit short on mechanics. Mostly from a lack of experience, lack of desire, and no one to teach me basic mechanics growing up. It seems every day I am discovering some new tool I never knew existed to make things so much easier! I didn't even get into automotive mechanics until I acquired my father's old 1985 Ford F150. Thanks to these forums, I have got that old Ford purring like a kitten now.

As a matter of fact, I am using zipties to keep my heater hoses neat on my 1985 F150 right now. I am just a stickler for OEM Ford parts. I never seen a heater hose bracket like the one in the earlier picture, and I just thought it would look really nice under my hood, right along side my newly rebuilt, Ford Blue engine!

Thanks for that step by step, flipklos. I never thought about using a socket. I have never used an acetyline torch (or any torch, for that matter) before, but I suppose it ain't rocket science.

 

kumbayah...

 

OEM Ford Truck heater hose hold down clamps 1965 1966 - eBay (item 270276574037 end time Jan-03-11 19:48:09 PST)


Lariat, did you already get some of these? Saw them & remembered you.