Coolant hoses on a series 3a

[Guest ged]

Hi All,

My car has been off the road to a good few years but now have some space and time to bring it back to life!

I'm steadily striping checking and replacing if needed, worn/perished parts and i can't for the life of me remember what the top and bottom coolant hoses came from, and they need replacing - I have the standard cortina rad. does anyone have any ideas please?

Thanks 

 

[Leslie Walters]

When I re-built my Roadster during the winter I just used all silicone hoses with swaged aluminium joiners where required, may cost a little more initially but built for life. All diameters/angled hoses are available in silicone if you shop around they are not too expensive (flea bay/CBS/Tweeks etc.)

[nicko]

My bottom hose is a flexi one from a mk3 cortina. 

HTH 

Nick 

[Guest ged]

Hi All,

Thanks very much the the pointer and advice - whilst looking around I found this :-

https://www.gates.com/gb/en/search.p.4254-000000-000000.v.4274-00020.html

"Gates® Vulco Flex® II radiator coolant hose is a flexible, durable curved hose designed to bend in almost any direction. The hose is engineered with improved sealing surface for greater leak resistance and easily replicates the angles and planes of a wide variety of expensive OE coolant hoses for quick, easy, and cost-effective replacement to virtually every vehicle on the road."

the size for my car is 32MM X 584MM and about £15 on EBay!

it's in the post!

Cheers again.