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Two questions pertaining to our cooling system

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Killercanary

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To make a long story short I'm pulling the engine out of my cobra since I broke off a motor mount stud in the block. While its out I figured I'd replace some components but I have a few questions.

1. Will an explorer water pump fit our cars? The pump looks the same but the pulley flange looks different. I have a chance to pick up a new one for $20+ shipping if it'll work. A local guy bought a ford racing crate engine and it came with this pump and he can't use it on his fox.

2. I had one hell of a time getting the rubber coolant lines off of the cobra oil cooler and I would like to delete it all together. What is involved and where can I get the GT rubber coolant line that connects the water pump to the hard coolant line on the intake? I've checked with autozone and advance and neither one carries it.
 

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I can't answer the first question for you, but the second I have some ideas. I know that the formed hoses are available individually for the heater lines, and each of the formed hoses (4 in all) comes in the heavy duty blue silicone hose kit.

I've also had good luck in the past looking for other SBF applications (the hose should be the same for any of the Fox Mustangs, Cougar, T-bird, or F series pickups IIRC).

Just some ideas. Good luck!
 

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Not sure on the first question. The Cobra delete is pretty easy. The oil cooler unbolts, and then you just put a standard oil filter on it, instead of the short one. It's a Purolater L30001. The hose the goes from the intake to the water pump is called the by pass hose. They sell them at Advance and Autozone. It's a Dayco part number A70646. You have to trim it down with a razor blade for it to fit. It's a stocking item, and it runs about $6.

Kurt
 

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IIRC the Explorer timing cover is different.
 

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I deleted the oil cooler on my cobra. I just took off the hard lines and cooler and bought the gt water pump to heater line hose from napa. The oil cooler lines were ugly and made the car much harder to work on and I thought the setup was also ineffective.
 
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