XPost: alt.home.repair   
   From: NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com   
      
   In alt.home.repair, on Sat, 29 Oct 2022 16:41:53 -0400, micky   
    wrote:   
      
   >   
   >>If it's something people do, there will be lots of full kits for it.   
   >   
   >Most of the hoses are just hoses.  you used to be able to buy them buy   
   >the foot, whatever length you want.  Maybe at a real auto parts store I   
   >still could but at Pep Boys, Advance, etc. I could only get bubble   
   >packed 10' lengths or something like that.   
   >   
   >3 cars ago I had taken one car to Jiffy Lube, and I didnt ask them to do   
   >more than change the oil, but he gave me a form that claimed they had   
   >checked all sorts of things.  I was watching and they did not check my   
   >PCV valve, plus if they had, I think they would have broken the hose,   
   >because when I later checked, it was stiff and brittle. So I replaced   
   >all the hoses then.   
      
   By which I meant the hoses, the vacuum hoses on top of the engine, where   
   it used to be very hot but with modern engines it's only somewhat hot,   
   but still hotter than most of the rest of the car.   
      
   I only needed two diameters iirc, at most 3.  And even though I bought   
   in 8 or 10' lengths, I didnt' have too much left over or waste.   
      
   >>Do full rubber hose kits exist for the 2004 Mitsubishi Lancer ES 2L gas?   
   >   
   >I don't know but I doubt it.   
   >   
   >The 2005 toyotal air intake hose (same hose as yours) whose replacement   
   >I described was still in excellent shape in 2020, but it had been   
   >sitting in a distorted situation for so long I couldn't get it to fit   
   >correctly at both ends at the same time.   But the rubber wasn't bad.  I   
   >still have it, outside.  When I get groceries later today, I'll check if   
   >it's stiff or brittle.   
   >   
      
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