T1 Coolant Feed Line

[roadrunnervert]

Can we still get these from the Mopar dealer? I just need the coolant feed, not the full set. Mine has a pinhole that has rusted thru.

Maybe I will take the tubing bender and make one. Any one do that?

It is for a Mitsu on an 89 Mini!

John

[jonxr5]

Yes you can still get them from the dealer, pretty reasonable too. I just got both new lines for my '86 Lancer from the dealer.

Jon

[A89aries]

I just bought a new oil feed line from the dealer, it was only about $70 and comes with a 1 year warrentee.

[BrassMonkey]

i used trany line

[roadrunnervert]

I just got the part from the dealer. It would be easy to make, flared fitting, 3/8 steel line. Silicone hose with clamps. Dealer here gets $39 for it.

[DartGTS340]

Anyone have a part number for this line? Be nice to have when the guy just flippantly tells me it's NSA because he's too lazy to open a book.

[tryingbe]

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stainless steel oil/coolant lines, cheaper than the OEM lines.

[DartGTS340]

^ Never mind. I got one ordered on my way home. $50.85... Ouch! But I'll save that much in four days driving my car as opposed to driving one of my trucks.
Guy at the dealer said there is a total of nine of these hoses available, and that he had checked the national warehouses. Probably full of it, but if it's true someone may want to snatch them up.
A friend of mine in Colorado had to replace the rear window in his '69 Daytona (last one-owner Hemi car in existence), and at the time a national search showed only three left, and he bought all of them. Smart move, because he also has a few '69 Charger 500's which take the same rear glass. And the glass itself now is worth whatever he determines it is.

[ShadowGoomba]

Actually, as far as glass goes... there are a few companies that will (for a rather decent profit margin) make new glass to replace the pieces that were thought to be "unreplaceable". I'll have to look deeper into their names, but it's just food for thought if everyone says there isn't any more replacement glass available.

[Capt. Chrysler]

Oil feed line for a 87 Turbo 1. No Problem, ordered it on Tue. picked it up Sat. 2/18/06. $35.49 First one went 132K, last one lasted 60K, so if this one lasts 30K the car will have 228K on it. I bet something else will go first.

[TurboBaron]

Coolant feed line I just made one myself. Couple flare fittings and some tranny line. Bada-bing. Done.

[Tbone]

I made one myself, too. I ditched the flare fittings and went with quick release water fittings from Parker. Then I attached a piece of high temp. rubber hose inbetween. I wanted to be able to remove the hose easily when getting to the wastegate can. I will let you know if it leaks!

[roadrunnervert]

Dealer p.n. 4387239 $39.75
It si so simple, and lots cheaper to make one

[DartGTS340]

I hear you guys on just putting some heater hose in between the hard lines. I've done this too many times to remember. But I was in a pinch, and had no time to be running around, nor f***ing around that day. Not any day last week for that matter. I know it doesn't take much to get the feed line off, but I've never had the lines off of this particular car, and have too many times in the past had these things with flare nuts that are rust siezed to the tubing, and the only way to get them off in one piece that way is to have enough room to spin the entire hard line(turbo off engine). If not, you just end up twisting the tube and breaking it. Nowadays, I like to have my backup option(new hardlines) on hand before that happens.
Plus the fact that my son wants to restore his 86 Turbo Z to as close to factory original as he possibly can for his senior project, I figured I'd just use the hose for a week or so, swap it out, clean it up and put it away for him. But...

The following morning when I went to pick up the hose, I about shit when the parts guy handed it to me.





I took it across the street to my shop, got a couple of pictures of it, then went back and returned it. Told him the only reason I had come there was for a new factory original part, and that wasn't it.
That's too bad. Down the road there will come a time where a concourse restoration on some of these cars will pay off. Some may think that will never happen, but people were saying the same thing back in the mid 70's when Hemi cars were setting on corners and you couldn't get people to buy them, and others were blowing up 340's, and sending them to the scrap pile because they weren't really worth anything. "And hey, they're are lots of them around."

I did exactly as I've done before many times, which is exactly what they have done. Just had to wait for the time to do it. Had to break out a 7 MPG truck to drive the 70 mile round trip to work for a couple of days.

Anyways, since you can no longer get an original looking piece from them there is no need to go to Chrysler at all for this part.