A Tale Of Two Hoses

Something wrong with your math or are you playing the number game?

There are two heater hoses. One goes in to the heater core from the metal tubing on the back of the engine. That tubing is connected to the water pump on the other end. The second hose comes out of the heater core to return to the engine block.

Okay, here are the part numbers:

and

You should probably try to decide where confusion lies, first.

The above are for 6 cylinder engines.

The above are for four cylinder engines model years 92 and later.

Then please see this:

If I can get sufficiently excited I'll fire up my copy of the EPC.

What size engine in your car btw ? LPT - FPT ? VIN ?

Graham

My previous response was based on the parts book. There may be many more one needs not be concerned with as a owner. Why not start from the simple question of what year and model is your 9k?

Sorry I didn't see the year and model of your 9k in the beginning.

are what you need.

Now, the parts I list are called two different things--the first group is termed heater core hose upper and lower, and the second heater core inlet and outlet hose...

Forget about the first group. They are for a V6. They are not for your 9k unless you have a V6.

I wouldn't have asked if that was what I was finding out, too...