# S13 CA heater hose **URL:** \ **Category:** Canada Nissan Automotive\ **Created:** [July 16, 2006, 10:16pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/s13-ca-heater-hose/143336 "2006-07-16T22:16:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CA18DET-180SX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e0b2c6/32.png) [@CA18DET-180SX](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/CA18DET-180SX)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2006, 10:16pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/s13-ca-heater-hose/143336/1 "2006-07-16T22:16:48Z")
So after not driving my car for like a week and a half I decide to take it out for a burn yesterday, and lo and behold, I blow one of my heater hoses. I was wondering if they are the same as the KA? I have the heater bypassed right now so I can still drive it, and I’ll prob just buy a chunk of heater hose to replace it because I don’t imagine the pre-formed ones are all that important. ---
**Author:** ![TyPhOOn](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/typhoon/32/5800_2.png) [@TyPhOOn](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/TyPhOOn)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2006, 12:53am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/s13-ca-heater-hose/143336/2 "2006-07-17T00:53:08Z")
I remember those hoses were JDM only and had to be ordered so I made them for the heater core and back of the engine ---
**Author:** ![CA18DET-180SX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e0b2c6/32.png) [@CA18DET-180SX](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/CA18DET-180SX)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2006, 11:30am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/s13-ca-heater-hose/143336/3 "2006-07-17T11:30:22Z")
Thats what I figured, I don’t see why I can’t just run some ordinary heater hose rather than finding one with the proper shape. ---
**Author:** ![Invalid\_Zero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ecae2f/32.png) [@Invalid\_Zero](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Invalid_Zero)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2006, 12:54pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/s13-ca-heater-hose/143336/4 "2006-07-17T12:54:15Z")
Cause regular heater hose can’t take the sharp bends it probably needs. Unless you want to run big ugly loops of it. ---
**Author:** ![jdms13rhd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f05b48/32.png) [@jdms13rhd](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/jdms13rhd)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2006, 1:52pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/s13-ca-heater-hose/143336/5 "2006-07-17T13:52:28Z")
napa and joint connectors are your friend. Ive done what you have done before on a CA. It sucks. Take your starter out for easy access you you will just get mad and take longer. ---
**Author:** ![CA18DET-180SX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e0b2c6/32.png) [@CA18DET-180SX](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/CA18DET-180SX)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2006, 4:40pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/s13-ca-heater-hose/143336/6 "2006-07-17T16:40:50Z")
Starter? Isn’t that on the right side and the hoses are on the left? ---
**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:** [July 19, 2006, 10:40pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/s13-ca-heater-hose/143336/7 "2006-07-19T22:40:00Z")
been there done that, i just replaced it with generic heater hose and wide bends, seems to work fine, but my heater was never that effective, i think the solonoid or whatever is behind the dash that activates the switch is wearing out. ---
**Author:** ![CA18DET-180SX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e0b2c6/32.png) [@CA18DET-180SX](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/CA18DET-180SX)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2006, 11:20am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/s13-ca-heater-hose/143336/8 "2006-07-20T11:20:55Z")
All I ended up doing was finding a piece of hose that was the same shape as the part that has the hole in it, cutting it off, putting in a connector and voila! New heater hose.