Help Hose decentigrating

[violaGT3]

Can anyone help me to get the part numbers or even identify a hose on my 99 C2. I will describe and try and get pics of it. The hose looks as though it had suffered and earthquake, there is the obvious crack line but it looks as though the rubber has been cooked and started to shrink and peel away. Kinda like when you see people paint their cars where it looks like the metal has been ripped by something. I'll try and get good pics. I know I was reading throught the DIY (researching coolant tank problems as I was told there was an issue with them)and saw something with a diagram of the hoses but of course now I cannot find it. OK I do not know how to load pics so here the in depth discription. This hose is 2" dia. from where it starts on the bottom of the motor it comes off what appears to the thermostat housing up to the frame wher it appears to become a approx. a 3/4"- 1" hose then it expands back into to a 2" hose that you see as a 90 elbow behin the intake snorkel and the black plastic thing that is in front of the coolant resevoir, well it the turns again and runs under the resivoir back to wwhat appears to be a fixed metal pipe that goes through the firewall?

Thanks in advance and I hope your New Years doesn't reveal to you what mine is to me!

Edited January 1, 2006 by ViolaGT3

[Loren]

Model?

Year?

[violaGT3]

Model?

Year?

Hi I edited it to show and I'll reply also It is a 99 C2. You're The Loren I keep seeing everywhere, Thanks for your assistance looks like you really know your way around a Porsche. I'm gonna try and pick it up as soon as I can hopefully on my own terms not by emergency repair like this could of been. Anyways eager to hear your thought's. Jim

[Loren]

If your tank and cap have never been changed then I would include them as suspect also. Some of the early MY99 cars had some hose clamp problems too. A picture of the bad hose and location will certainly help - cause there are a lot of hoses on these cars.

[violaGT3]

If your tank and cap have never been changed then I would include them as suspect also. Some of the early MY99 cars had some hose clamp problems too. A picture of the bad hose and location will certainly help - cause there are a lot of hoses on these cars.

Well I have put the pics in my yahoo. photo album as I really don't know any other way to do them.

http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/sin7_2000/al...m/ph//my_photos

[Loren]

Are you sure the tank is not leaking down on the hose?

[violaGT3]

Are you sure the tank is not leaking down on the hose?

Well, there could be an issue with the resivoir, but if you look closely at the picture in the top left corner you'll see the hose with a jagged crack in it.