# Help! I cant figure out how to move (fix) a coolant line (CA

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**Category:** Canada Nissan Automotive\
**Created:** [May 20, 2008, 9:56pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/help-i-cant-figure-out-how-to-move-fix-a-coolant-line-ca/149047 "2008-05-20T21:56:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![snowy\_s13](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e5b9ba/32.png) [@snowy\_s13](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/snowy_s13)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2008, 9:56pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/help-i-cant-figure-out-how-to-move-fix-a-coolant-line-ca/149047/1 "2008-05-20T21:56:26Z")

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The other day my CA18DET started to spike a little in heat so i pulled over and noticed that I was leaking coolant through a pinhole…although at a decent rate. The hose that is leaking is a rubber hose between the air intake and the block just above and towards the firewall from the thermostat. (Make sense to anyone?) right around where the injectors are. I removed the rubber hose and found that it was covering a 2mm gap between two nipples. Now I have no idea how to get a new hose over these. I can not figure out how to remove the hardline, it will not move back at all to allow me to get a hose on, but i can not see where it is anchored. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

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**Author:** ![ohsoslo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/cab0a1/32.png) [@ohsoslo](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ohsoslo)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2008, 10:35pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/help-i-cant-figure-out-how-to-move-fix-a-coolant-line-ca/149047/2 "2008-05-20T22:35:04Z")

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i know which line you’re talking about, i did have to replace it but i don’t remember how i did it. there is an easy way though…like taking the throttle body off or another part…i don’t remember it being a big pain though

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**Author:** ![snowy\_s13](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e5b9ba/32.png) [@snowy\_s13](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/snowy_s13)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2008, 3:05pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/help-i-cant-figure-out-how-to-move-fix-a-coolant-line-ca/149047/3 "2008-05-24T15:05:27Z")

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Just in case somebody else has this problem I will tell you how I fixed it. To move the hardline so you can replace the rubber hose you must remove 2 bolts that hold on a 2 inch square sensor that is between the hardline and the front of the car, just below the intake manifold. The one bolt is super easy, the other is a finiky bitch because of the location of sensors, rad hoses etc. It takes some patience and a wrench to get it out as a conventional socket will not fit, perhaps if you have something a little more sophisticated it would be easier.