If any of you have bought the 10-piece coolant hose kit for the CRX from Samco, you've probably noticed that it's missing a hose. For the heater system, there are 2 inlet hoses to the firewall, and an outlet hose from the firewall. The Samco 10-piece kit comes with the outlet hose, but only one of the inlet hoses. Weird huh!

To better understand this, refer to the illustration below:


The Samco kit comes with hose #25, and hose #26, but NOT hose #24.

Here is what the Samco 10-piece kit comes with:


You'll notice that Samco hose #TB-637 correlates to hose #26 above, and Samco hose #TB-640 correlates to hose #25 above.


The missing hose bugged me enough that I contacted Samco directly about it. After about 6 months of exchanging emails with them, I now have Samco hose #TB-2769, which correlates to hose #24 above! They actually made the tooling for the hose after I talked to them. You gotta love a company with that kind of customer service!

On to the pictures:








As for the availability of the new hose, Samco had this to say:

"The hose can now be purchased separately by just quoting Samco part number TB-2769 to any of the distributors, Suggested retail on this hose is $41.90.
The TCS-49/C kit has now been amended from a 10 hose kit to an 11 hose kit, all kits or individual hoses must be purchased through a distributor."




Modified by nihkon at 11:11 AM 10/14/2008

 

Score one for the home team. Well done.

 

sweet job on getting them to fix that! now... where does one purchase this 11 piece hose kit from?

 

Thanks guys!

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These are their USA distributors:
http://www.samcosport.com/usa/distributors.asp

 

That's pretty cool. Wish they made an upper hose for a zc.

 

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So how much does a hose kit like this cost?
From the upclose pictures it kinda just looks like a rubber hose wrapped in black tape..ha

 

The 10-piece kit generally sells for right around $200. I'm not sure if the price has been increased with the addition of the new hose or not.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by nihkon &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">If any of you have bought the 10-piece coolant hose kit for the CRX from Samco, you've probably noticed that it's missing a hose. For the heater system, there are 2 inlet hoses to the firewall, and an outlet hose from the firewall. The Samco 10-piece kit comes with the outlet hose, but only one of the inlet hoses. Weird huh!

To better understand this, refer to the illustration below:


The Samco kit comes with hose #25, and hose #26, but NOT hose #24.

Here is what the Samco 10-piece kit comes with:


You'll notice that Samco hose #TB-637 correlates to hose #26 above, and Samco hose #TB-640 correlates to hose #25 above.


The missing hose bugged me enough that I contacted Samco directly about it. After about 6 months of exchanging emails with them, I now have Samco hose #TB-2769, which correlates to hose #24 above! They actually made the tooling for the hose after I talked to them. You gotta love a company with that kind of customer service!

On to the pictures:








As for the availability of the new hose, Samco had this to say:

"The hose can now be purchased separately by just quoting Samco part number TB-2769 to any of the distributors, Suggested retail on this hose is $41.90.
The TCS-49/C kit has now been amended from a 10 hose kit to an 11 hose kit, all kits or individual hoses must be purchased through a distributor."




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1988 to 1991

 

damn i love these hose kits yeah i dont understand the one hose thing

 

Hate to raise this from the dead... but what do all the hoses exactly go to? and do the main radiator hoses only work with a stock motor? or will they work with a gsr as well?

 

The kit replaces all the hoses on the engine. And yeah, it's designed for the stock engine, although I would suspect that some of the hoses in the rear could be interchangable. They also sell a b-series kit that just has the upper and lower radiator hoses.