one way to do it is to take them off and cart them over to your local napa
or high volume parts store and get them to let you wander the back room
and find a hose that is similar.  i often bend up something in the shape i
need then do this for conversion hoses.  do you have your engine mounted
with the diesel parts?

jonathan

On Wed, 15 Mar 2006, Weibel, Pius wrote:

> I have an I4 in my 85 westy.  When I installed the plumbing (Coolant
> hoses), I cut off the ends (about 4 inches/7.5 cm in length) of the very
> long & curvy hoses (from the 1.9 WBX) that normally were attached to the
> 2 large diameter hoses that go to the radiator at the vanagon front.  I
> estimate that the outside diameter on the hoses is about 2 inches/5 cm
> where were attached at the "firewall."  These hoses immediately reduced
> down to a smaller size diameter, to about 1.5 inches/3.5-4 cm.  I would
> like to replace these hoses soon, as they are older than the rest of the
> hoses.  These 1.9 WBX hoses are very expensive (parts 025-121-062 and
> 025-121-102), so I would rather find a similar replacement that is less
> expensive and less wasteful.  These hoses are also getting harder to
> find and I would rather leave them for those who still have the WBXs.
> Can any of you engine conversionists suggest an appropriately sized
> replacement?
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> I can get better measurements of the hoses tonight.
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