THE LOCAL FORD DEALER HAS A PARTS MANAGER WHO DOES NOT WANT TO SELL OVER THE COUNTER!!!!! He has been about as rude as can be. I bought a new vehicle there, and used to have another car serviced there when I did not want to crawl under it. (That was most of the time). He is still super rude and lazy about letting you know the part is in, thenmakes rude comments that he was ready to send it back since you did not get it sooner.
I will use duct tape and roll heater hose before I see him first. I wish it was different!
Thank you for other recomendations. After 22 years, I do not trust the hoses, especially since one left trails down the outside of the firewall. It has been tightened, but I still am loosing a little coolant somewhere. Not enough to smell and not enough to make the exhaust go white, but the tank is getting lower over time anyway. I bet it is a high RPM leak somewhere like on one of my SHO's million little hoses. Might as well go for the cheap and likely answer first since I have no leak tester. Besides, I like blue.