79 oil cooler hydraulic hose replacement
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79 oil cooler hydraulic hose replacement
I think our longer oil cooler hose is starting to weep and leak oil. Checked at Mazda stealership and told was no longer available. MazdaTrix is around $110 for both hoses. Victoria British does not list the hose.
Guy at auto parts store suggested a local hydraulic hose company, just take in old hose and have them make a replacement. My question is has anyone done this and at what cost? I would hope they would be cheaper but still good quality.
Or I am open for any other suggestions.
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Guy at auto parts store suggested a local hydraulic hose company, just take in old hose and have them make a replacement. My question is has anyone done this and at what cost? I would hope they would be cheaper but still good quality.
Or I am open for any other suggestions.
Thanks
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I had it done. They just cut the ends off the old hose and attach them to a new hose. I think they were $25-30 each and very good quality. That's the route I would take.
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79 oil coolant hose
so you say that they reused the fittings on both ends of the hose, just replaced the hose. I would be good with that, I don't think that the fittings themselves are leaking jsut the 27 year old hose.
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Make sure it's the hose and not the fitting on the oil cooler. The oil cooler on my '79 developed a crack around one of the fittings a couple of years ago. I found a guy that was good with aluminum welding and he fixed it up for me. Still running the original lines.
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I have pirtec hoses and new(shiny)fittings, the two were $35 for hose and like $12 each fitting, but no more weeping hoses. is the hose all oily from end to end or just one end cos mine hade the same ammount of oil all over.