This coolant hose looks fun to get to...

[inmaniac]

So... Does anyone have advice on how to best attack replacing this hose? I guess I just start pulling things off until I can get to it 

 

 

[inmaniac]

Ok so I've come to the conclusion that there's no way I can get to this hose. I've decided I'll run another hose to bypass this one, should be much easier than trying to replace this one! >.<

[mick-r34gtt-]

Hi bro.... gee ya gunna hate it as i know its a prick... its a steel pipe section that runs behind the head yeah? It comes in a whole section with 2 pipes.. there is a nut in the center!!

[Jordy32]

If one hose has gone there's a good chance that another, and the rest are about to go too. Start thinking about replacing them all with a kit  

[inmaniac]

4 hours ago, Jordy32 said:

If one hose has gone there's a good chance that another, and the rest are about to go too. Start thinking about replacing them all with a kit  

Ordered!

[Ty1]

That hose is a prick to replace [emoji21] i just replaced mine while i had the head off so it was super easy [emoji5] i actually replaced that entire metal coolant line and the rubber hose section with a braided line which can be purchased from most autobarn stores [emoji106]

[NEO25T]

Was reading about this recently and they said to drop the starter out to get access from underneath.

My manifold is off at the moment so im going to sort everything out before it goes back together

[mick-r34gtt-]

As Ty1 said and did.. use braided line's...

[inmaniac]

Ok so I couldn’t find anywhere on a public holiday to get braided hose. Instead, I did find the perfect shaped heater hose for my application! Funnily enough, the hose I used was for the intake manifold of a 1992-1996 Magna. Go figure. 

So, as mentioned in my second post, I’ve opted to completely bypass the original route for this hose. I’ve now run a length of hose from the original source at the back of the intake manifold, down the back of the head neatly tucked away, and I then used rotary tool to cut the hard coolant line to the turbo, slip on the new hose and clamped her up. 

Pictures speak a thousand words. Might not be the ideal solution but it’ll work for me ?

[inmaniac]

After posting, I realised one of the pictures I uploaded was of those hose way in the air when I was fiddling around with placement - it didn’t stay at the top of the bay!  I was able to route it down behind the head  

[Ben C34]

Did you flare the hard line where you cut it? If not solid chance it will leak

[admS15]

Good thinking, might be a good idea to wrap the end near the dump pipe with some sort of heat proof material or make a heat shield [emoji106]

[inmaniac]

4 minutes ago, Ben C34 said:

Did you flare the hard line where you cut it? If not solid chance it will leak

No sir, although I definitely should have! As this is a temporary solution I’ve opted to put a few layers of stretched silicon tape on the end, on which I slid the hose on and it was super tight and only went on with a little bit of rubber grease. I then clamped  her down good. I totally acknowledge this isn’t great long term and I’ll aim to sort out something more permanent when I next have a decent play under the bonnet. 

4 minutes ago, admS15 said:

Good thinking, might be a good idea to wrap the end near the dump pipe with some sort of heat proof material or make a heat shield

Cheers - yeah that’s smart I might see what I can dig up  

 

 

[Dose Pipe Sutututu]

fuuarkk.. fun times

I've had that split on my current car (old motor) ended up replacing it with EFI hose and ran a braided china-spec ling long dim line to the turbo.

New motor has proper 4-ply eBay silicon hose to the braided water line lololol...

Someone come swap me their BMW 335i for my entire car/motor

[discopotato03]

Same here I used a piece of good quality EFI hose .

For the record I would have used a couple of OE quality EFI hose clamps as well .

You can get at the mongrel on an R33 by removing the three bolt IAC housing and some of the wiring loom brackets in that area . 

A .

[QLDR31]

A bit late, but I replaced that hose on the Stagea (RB25DET NEO) the other week. Prick a job to get out, I used really long nose pliers and long nose bent pliers. To get to the clamp behind the engine I went horizontally from the intake side. I replaced the hose with Gates 8mm universal Z bend from Repco and new clamps.

I bought a seven piece radiator hose kit on Ebay, trying to workout where all these hoses go