Are you sure that’s just not where it’s pooling? That’s where mine would pool and drip from. I believe the silver lines are for the rear a/c. The black ones (to the left in your pic) are for the rear heat.
Well, I actually discovered the leak this weekend when I was trying to change the valve cover gaskets and couldn't get to the bolt on the bottom of the valve cover without removing the hoses. I dropped my wrench and while wiggling under the Jeep to retrieve it, saw the puddle of coolant that had built up over night and saw it was slowly dripping from where I took those pictures. I did not see any indication of leakage from the firewall or from behind the intake manifold. The puddle that formed was directly under the lines from the pictures I took.
Will do! Thanks for the info my dude!
Thanks for the write up and the pics.
MB make sure you have Mopar gaskets. Both mine were leaking at the firewall, and they used the blue aftermarket ones on the reman a year ago. They didn't last long. Just replaced mine 3 weeks ago.
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mine failed about 2.5 years after the swap. but it was the actual t itself, not the hoses or other connections. I was in a time crunch and went with a plastic t that the local parts store had in stock. I believe if I had gone with the brass t I wouldn't have had any issues.
Well have you tried? If not cut the existing custom hose make up off and look at what you have and replace each piece individually as the factory part is very pricey in essence you are rebuilding it yourself so if it ever has a problem again you can just change the hose. You will see you can get the parts from a local box store. Well did it work?
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I did both even though only one was leaking, figuring they had gotten brittle with age. Glad I did most of the barbs had gotten brittle and came apart in pieces. Also easier to work on the back one if the front tee is out of the way. One thing that helped me was to remove the hood struts and just prop up the hood with a 2 X 2 that gave me the elbow room that I needed. One other thing I did to get more room was to loosen a ground wire and reroute it out of the way.
Great idea. I might have to try that on my 2nd one. I had no way to get both arms in there, so only did the cracked one.
