Radiaor hose loop

[ThoughT ExperimenTs]

Hi, cars heater broke under the dash so I need to loop the radiator hose, the old hose is broken so I bought a new one but I can't seem to get it into place without having it bend kind of sharply or have 'flatish spots' in the curve, is this going to be alright?

[NZ_AE86]

If you are just bypassing the heater core and when you say radiator hose will have a kink in it you mean the the heater hose will have a kink then this will be fine as it is not required to flow water through the heater as it is only a parallel system.

[ThoughT ExperimenTs]

yea im just looping it so it doesn't pass through the heater. Are you sure it's ok to have kinks in it? i thougth the entire amount of radiator fluid had to pass through it?

[ThoughT ExperimenTs]

It's going to be pretty hard to stop liek 180 degree sharp kinks.

[vvega]

you dont have to loop it
just bung both hoses and that will solve ya problems.... done it pleanty of times



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[ThoughT ExperimenTs]

ok sweet so my bent hose will do fine - dont have anything to bung the ends with.

[NZ_AE86]

Bent hose will do fine, the heater does not need to flow water through it! It will be just like you have the 'blend flap' on cold.

[fangsport]

depending on the vehicle, the hose may need to flow. i have removed the heater unit on the rally car(dumb idea, rally is a winter sport!), and had to keep the flow due to the outlet position on the head. if the pipe was blocked off, it would have caused a build up of heat around the #4 piston, not to mention a build in scale around the same piston.

[ThoughT ExperimenTs]

shit, any idea if a 3SFE needs to?