John, you just use a piece of coolant hose.  Make it long enough so it
doesn't kink and you should be fine.  I have been using the 443121107A
hose as this is made for coolant so it won't degrade with it.  This hose
is just a bleeder to allow air to get out of the engine and up into that
coolant rail that goes around the engine bay.  I guess they got tired of
the early vans having problems bleeding air out of the coolant system so
they put the rail around the engine bay as a high spot so that the air
would go into that and the engine could self bleed.  So that is really
all that hose is for a bleeder and if it has a small kink it is not
critical.  It should still work properly.  Let me know if I can help you
further.

Ken Wilford
John 3:16
www.vanagain.com

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> I having trouble replacing the short coolant line that feeds from the plastic distribution unit (pass side) to the last opening on the bleeder rail that encircles the engine compartment - doing a 180 deg turn. This line is only 4"-5" long and when I bend a length of coolant line, it nearly collapses on itself due to the tight bend. I also tried 7mm fuel line and it was slightly better. I longer length of line does not work any better.
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> Anyone else run into this? It's hose #27 on the diagram I found on-line.
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