XJ Heater hoses

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michaelc291

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I am trying to find the moulded heater hoses for my 1994 lit XJ. My usual ports of call for things Jeep have drawn blanks and Mopar says discontinued. I am not sure I can get preformed bends and make them up myself in the local area.
For reference, they exit the bulkhead forwards from the heater matrix ( I don't think it has valves) then double back on themselves, go round the back of the rocker box then turn 90 deg to the water pump on the opposite side of the engine.
Sadly one failed the other day and I lost all the water on the test house floor. I was politely shown the door.
 

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A little hard for me to tell from the pics but what I did with my 1990 XJ was keep the hard pipe and use regular heater hose for the short flexible parts.
 
Thanks for the reply.

The only hard pipe I have are the two short stubs poking through the bulkhead (firewall) that your hoses fit onto. There is no water valve, so the water circulates all the time.
Sorry if the pics are not that clear but there is a lot of other stuff going on in that area which I why I marked them up to try to help.

The straight bits are no problem but it's all those twists and turns at the back of the engine. I can't find anyone who keeps a range of preformed rubber elbows and bends that I can simply join together like you would for an exhaust pipe.
Any help there would be welcome.
 

Happily the car passed its test yesterday with a cobbled together hose, so that's that for another 12 months, Of all the requests I have made no one has come up with any leads on new one piece pipes.
It is going to have to have ones made up with various elbows and bends. The trouble with doing that is just creates more opportunities for leaks.
I have to put two tee pieces into the pipes for the LPG conversion vapouriser and I'll see if there is any way to re-route the pipes in a straighter line to reduce the number of bends.
 
Thanks very much for the suggestion. They are quite close to what is needed. The problem is the cost, plus, by the time I have shipped them here to Spain the price will have doubled. I find this with RockAuto stuff all the time, so that rather prices them out of touch.
 

here in texas, i found them at the local autoparts stores online, oreillys, autozone, and advanced auto.


maybe you can get them through ebay from one of hte other countries nearby, or even japan or china ebays?
 
That's the best news yet. I have already checked Ebay in the UK, Spain and Germany but nothing is showing. Could you send me a link to each of the ads you have mentioned? I can then go in and check them out . Thank you.
Usually suppliers are willing to ship their goods (for a fee). Sadly though at this end (Spain) we get done for import duty and tax which effectively doubles the original asking price.
I get this regularly ordering stuff from Rock Auto.
 
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