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where to buy vacuum hose?
QUESTION: I replaced, on a whim, all five vacuum/vapor hoses to the
charcoal canister. 3/8" hose was a buck a foot at NAPA. I
got top of the line fuel/emissions hose for the job. The hose is
incredibly well constructed. Now some of the hoses carry gasoline
vapors, while others actuate the various valves and solenoids and
shouldn't have fuel vapors inside. I feel like I overbought for some
of this application.
Looking through some service receipts from the previous owner,
30 cents a foot was paid for 3/8" hose. And this is with markup,
I imagine the mechanic paid 10 cents/foot.
I saw clear vinyl hose at home depot for 10c a foot, but I wouldn't
use it under the hood of a car... Would be great for aerating a
fish tank, I guess.
Where are there good deals on slightly lower grade hose, particularly
for vacuum signalling applications like the stove, EGR, etc?
ANSWER: You can buy 25' lengths of hose on a small spool at Pep Boys for
pretty cheap price.
Along the lines of vacuum hose, where can you get metric tubing from?
All the stuff at the walk in auto stores are in fractional inch
increments (1/8", 3/16", 1/4"). I find the 3/16" to be too large, and
the 1/8" too small for everything that I need to change (even on
Domestic cars).
I'm getting the same thing. The locals, when they have any 1/4" hose, only
carry fuel line hose at 93 cents a foot (or $23.24 per 25 feet, a whopping
one cent discount for quantity). That includes AutoZone, Trak, Forest City,
as well as the NAPAs and other more professionally-oriented places. There's
an awful lot of vacuum hose in my three cars that's used in places where
something would have to fail in some major unlikely way to get fuel vapor
into the hose, and I just refuse to spend $50 replacing vacuum hoses.
I'll make up an extrusion gizmo and make my own first.
I'm also not keen on the concept of using fuel line hose (expected to be
under pressure) as vacuum line, when there's no indication the stuff is
actually specified to be used for vacuum. Sure, it has nice thick walls
and probably won't collapse, but will the material leach and self-destruct?
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