Need A/C Hose from Accumulator to Compressor - Suction Line

[DeepPower]

My mechanic is working on my '89 SHO's A/C right now, replacing the compressor, accumulator, condenser, liquid line - pretty much the entire A/C.

But they can't remove the line from the accumulator to the compressor, they did everything they could but it is rusted tight onto the accumulator after 13 years. Mechanic can't find a replacement hose. The alternative is to keep my present accumulator.

Does anyone know of an off-the-shelf hose I can get from Autozone, O'Reilly, or NAPA today that can replace that hose?

The alternative is I hopefully find that hose later, and pay a lot all over again to replace that hose and the accumulator.

THANKS!

 

[luigisho]

What does it look like? Got a Ford part #? I have a new oem compressor and a line with canister looking thing on it for my '90 that I got rid of many years ago & never installed

 

[DeepPower]

Well, from what my mechanic described over the phone it looks like the first two photos in this:
http://www.shoforum.com/showthread.php?t=114122

and he says it's called the suction line. Does it look like that?

I don't have a Ford p/n or any p/n at all yet.

Mechanic says he can do the work today without changing the accumulator. If I get the suction line he can change the accumulator and the suction line later for $120 in labor. So it's no longer urgent, but I want to get it in the next week.

 

[sperold]

That is the hard line to get and they are out of production and out of stock. You might find one on this forum from a southern car as the main problem is the steel section rots.

A place that fixes reefers on transport trucks would be able to use your good manifold connection and plumb up the other section, including the other end. But that takes time.

 

[luigisho]

The one I have looks like what racer x posted here http://www.shoforum.com/showthread.php?p=1411987#post1411987

 

[DeepPower]

That is the hard line to get and they are out of production and out of stock. You might find one on this forum from a southern car as the main problem is the steel section rots.

As I now live in the south, is the suction line something I can take off a junker? I'm wondering if the car needs to be jacked up to get at that line.

 

[sperold]

All of the lines in use now were made between 1989 and 1995, so used is the only way to go on anything that bolts to the compressor. I have used A/C compressor lines on my 95 from a car from Upstate NY, so anything south of there is a bonus.