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I need to stop working on this car (and drive it) because I've got other things to fix. I'm looking for a single OEM hose to complete my repairs.
This only hose that I haven't replaced with an OEM Nissan piece is the larger diameter / very short EVAP hose that runs between the EVAP purge valve? and the hard line to the charcoal canister. See pics below - "the only one that's not new", right in the center of the first pic. I tried to order this in July 2018:
Part No.: 14912-40U05
HOSE-EVAP CONTR
[I30 | 1998] OEM hose
with all the others - infinitipartsdeal.com took my order but couldn't fill it along with the rest of my order (part discontinued).
The brake vacuum hoses are discontinued - so they're original. All the other hoses and clamps are new OEM...
Any help finding an OEM hose appreciated !
Last edited by reallywildstuff; 01-22-2019 at 08:08 AM.
I use to be like you. Only ordering OEM from dealer paying top dollar, avoiding local auto parts store and even online stores. Until I met the discontinued parts.
Your local auto parts store should have universal vacuum/fuel line hoses of different diameter. Usually sold by the foot. That is all we are left with because of discontinued parts.
It's only top dollar if you don't place a value on your own time.
What I don't care for is taking old hoses (that sometimes break) off an otherwise running car (I'm driving this everyday now) with the intention of matching them by hand at the store - only to then be unable to find an exact tubing match for a "20 year old foreign car" (because nobody cares, see) and THEN I don't have an intact hose to put the car back together with.
During my injector R&R, I had to use generic hose for the discontinued fuel line and crankcase ventilation, and I notated the pieces I bought and their application here for the benefit of others:
I was hopeful that the forum would contain similar information for this specific piece. I don't agree that having the information documented in advance and the part on hand before disassembly qualifies as "over thinking". Every time I touch this 20 year old car I'm expecting to break something that's just "old and brittle" (but also "Discontinued") and so I try to minimize touching it to "all at once".
BTW both part numbers shown on infinitipartsdeal.com are discontinued:
So if your goal is to find the OEM part of the discontinued part(s), you are out of luck. That is like looking for an extinct species. No one has it anymore. Discontinued means discontinued everywhere (in most cases).
Another option is buying a silicon hose kit and replacing all the vacuum and emission hoses with those. They don't break down nor harden like rubber hoses.
the brake vacuum hoses have been discontinued for over 10 years now..
as far as the others. even if you found them unless sealed in packaging they would have deteriorated over time anyway.
just find exact matches in dia inner and outer and cut to size.
I went to AdvanceAuto and asked the guy there if I could go in back to match my hose and just picked any of those molded hoses that kind of matched my vacuum hoses. Didn't want the headache of trying to source the OEM nor the price. I fixed one of the charcoal canister hoses for one of our cars that way. You just tighten that sucker with hose clamps and you are done.
01-22-2019, 08:00 AM
