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My car has — what I was told is a 1983 or 84 Chevette 1.6L engine. All the parts companies come up with an L shaped hose and mine is a U shaped hose. The dealer has a part number but the part is discontinued and no pictures.
NOTE: The U shape is needed to go around the air system for the emissions system.
The Chilton manual shows a U shaped hose in the cartoon of the cooling system.
Do any of you have an idea on how to find the correct hose?
Chevette owners — what does yours have?
Any way you could unbolt and discard the A.I.R. pump, which I suspect is the offending bit of “emissions” equipment?
Bill, My Chevette based BCW uses a L shaped lower hose. It does not have any of the air stuff so I do not have to go arround it.Really does simplify things in an already crowded engine compartment.
Bill Larry has the system I did the same thing and used a flex hose simple . all parts stores have them Dan
Thanks for all of the input. I decided to remove the air pump system. The L shaped hose fit then —- I did need to get a new smaller fan belt. Total fix — less than $15.00. All is well — Thanks
JUST INFO: The reason I needed a new lower hose was because the fan blades were actually hitting the side of the hose at high RPM — Yesterday I had driven to Pensacola ( 60 miles away ) to get the car inspected for a title (That was done). This was the longest drive I had been on and the car only had 104 miles on it when I left the house. On the way back–water showed up on my windshield — the instruments were fine –But I pullled off the road imediately. Found the leak. Let it cool down.
Walked to Walmart — bought a box cutter knife to trim the 7 fan blades, electrical tape, and a gallon of water.
After two unsuccessful tape wrapping tries to stop the leak—I finally got it stopped. Topped the water off again left the radiator cap at the first detent -so the pressure would not build, and drove away. I stopped and checked for leaks about 10 miles down the road — NO LEAKS ( I was pleasently surprised) I checked again at 25 miles and 40 miles. When I arrived at home there still NO LEAKS. This morning- no leaks.
Guess what I’m adding to my emergency tool kit.
Way to overcome adversity. If I was you I’d check the front motor mounts though. I don’t think your fan should have ever cut your hose. Bet you got a rotten mount (or two). Also about $15 each, probably, and not as hard to replace as you might first imagine.
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