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Originally Posted by uwanna
With making up new AC hoses, there are the newer, smaller diameter barrier AC hoses available. You are most likely aware of them, but if not, they are a lot smaller diameter and much easier to run thru the chassis. I had some new barrier hoses made up for my
car at a local industrial hose/fittings company, unfortunatley they didn't inform me of the smaller hoses till mine were already made up. Drat the luck!!
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They are an option, at least the the reduced #8 hose is. It uses the same crimping dies as the normal #6 hose, so I thought I might use normal #6, reduced #8 and a single run of normal #10. Instead of buying extra dies at $70 each.
I will say that the reduced hoses are only about 20-25% smaller, and since I'm replacing good old fashion R12 hoses, the routing shouldn't be much of a problem.