Know Your Radiator Hoses

Radiator hose is a hose which is in charge of transferring the water pump from the engine coolant to the radiator into the car. Connected to the nipple on the radiator or water pump or engine with intake of clamps. Most of the design of the radiator hose formed specifically for the application. However, there are some universal designs that can be bent and fits into many different applications.

When doing the replacement radiator hose, you should also replace the hose clamps. There are many types of radiator hose clamps that can be used, from a single strand of heavy spring steel that is installed with a pair of pliers, for more general types of screws are installed and fastened with a screwdriver. Some of the designs utilizing the radiator hose spring steel in the hose to prevent being sucked by the force of the water pump.


In most applications, the hose radiator hose down on the radiator is lower. The refrigerant sucked out of the radiator by a water pump through the hose and entering the engine block. Cooling is driven by the engine block and heads with a water pump. After the cooling cycle is completed through the machine, it has to absorb a lot of heat. Later pushed out by the machine and sent back to the radiator for the cooling cycle is started.


There are many different dimensions of the hose and depending on the design. Each vehicle has its own special design with twists in the right place, so for every vehicle harness size respectively. There is a hose diameter 1 inch (2.5 cm) and all of the lines to the hose with a diameter of a few inches. The time it takes to draw the heat from the engine is specified the size of the interval that it takes to get the flow rate.


The machine has a coolant that circulates through it then the radiator will heat too quickly. Cooling takes inside the engine to absorb heat as the time required by the radiator required to dissipate heat. The size of the radiator hose can help to achieve that goal, known as the time of saturation.

Usually the lower radiator hose with a diameter larger than the upper hose. This allows the water pump to pull in a large amount of coolant from the radiator, but the small hose on top prevents the engine cold too fast.