Heater hose routing ?

[Booie]

I have a 1979 with an L-48 motor with AC. I'm wondering if there is a special way to route the heater hoses as the lower one on my car is running under the AC compressor and resting on the A frame and this just wore a hole in a fairly new hose. I installed it that way as this is the way the one I replaced was run. But now that I look at it I don't think that it's right unless there is something I'm missing this is going to happen again. Also the one coming out the top seems to make a fairly sharp bend right after it comes out of the block. Help!!! ;help :bash

 

[KANE]

I have a 1979 with an L-48 motor with AC. I'm wondering if there is a special way to route the heater hoses as the lower one on my car is running under the AC compressor and resting on the A frame and this just wore a hole in a fairly new hose. I installed it that way as this is the way the one I replaced was run. But now that I look at it I don't think that it's right unless there is something I'm missing this is going to happen again. Also the one coming out the top seems to make a fairly sharp bend right after it comes out of the block. Help!!! ;help :bash

Although the pic below is of my TPI swap... the concept remains the same.

I think you can pass the heater hose just behind the front of the AC accessory bracket like I did. The heater hose is a darker shade of black and sits near the fuel lines, just below the TPS sensor wires in the picture below.

Hope that helps!

 

[JohnZ]

I have a 1979 with an L-48 motor with AC. I'm wondering if there is a special way to route the heater hoses as the lower one on my car is running under the AC compressor and resting on the A frame and this just wore a hole in a fairly new hose.

If you have the Assembly Manual (a must for any Corvette owner), it will show you exactly how the hoses should be routed and clamped, with the correct fittings.

 

[Booie]

Thanks John I 'll check there