I was driving today and when I shut the truck off noticed some steam/smoke coming out of my engine bay. Popped the hood and it appears that there is steam coming out of the coolant bottle or hoses around that area. Might be a slight pin hole somewhere. Figuring these stock hoses are 15+ years old it's probably time to change them.

I can't seem to find anywhere the part numbers for the hoses. When I replaced things on the truck a couple years back I did the upper and lower rad hoses so those are perfectly fine. But the three hoses that attach to the rad overflow bottle should be replaced. I have circled the two that you can see in the attached picture but there is also one that is on the back bottom side of the coolant tank.

Does anyone know these part numbers or what they are called? I checked rock auto and it doesn't appear they they look the same at all. I was only able to find one coolant bottle hose and it didn't look right via the shape/curves...etc.

Thanks,
-Nigel

 

What I would do, and probably most here, is to take the hoses into the auto parts store and match them up.
They will have some generic hose on a role that will work.

I'm sure the Ford dealer would have the parts all cut to length, but I could see you paying 50+ dollars for some hoses that are actually only worth a few bucks.

And yeah, I know, you want to have the right ones in hand so you don't have to measure things up, but sometimes that isn't possible.

EG. the coolant overflow line on mine (3 liter) that goes to the reservoir. I ended up using a piece of vacuum line.

EDIT:
Is it one of these ?

http://www.rockauto.com/en/catalog/f...pass+hose,2155

 

Assuming you have a MY2001.5 with the 2.3 and not the 2.5:

There are three hoses connected to the degas bottle, the top two you highlighted and the one connected to the bottom of it.

My degas bottle actually corroded (if you can call it that) and sprung a leak.

Here's a pic I made a year ago of the coolant flow. It uses the Ford parts diagram. This might help you find what you need.

 

Nigel, the picture you attached isn't for a 2001 model. What you see in the pic may not be what is under your hood.

 

Appreciate the picture! Yep those are the exact hoses I need but now I'm wondering if I go to the dealer if they can find them. I can't seem to source them anywhere for some reason.

The picture attached was just a general reference on the hoses/bottle. The picture though is correct on the 3 hoses, two circle that I need.

The front one has this weird larger part to it, almost like a laptop power cable that has the magnet attachment on it.

-Nigel