NLA hoses

[lightweight73]

How do you go about replacing hoses that are no longer available, especially ones that are not just point A to B. Is it a case of finding the closest silicone size and some way to join them? I have a Y shaped air feed hose the I suspect has split (slowly getting to it, as it's a pain to clear around it) and no longer available from Jaguar.
Thanks
Andy

[GreenV8S]

That's what I do for cooling hoses. Most motorsports type outlets will sell hose sections and joiners in various sizes and shapes. Y pieces are not common so may not be available off the shelf. Have you got space to fit an aluminium / stainless Y piece with hose tails? If not, how important is it that the hose is flexible? I've seen bucks made from casting tape used as a former for DIY carbon/fiberglass composite ducts if you want to get fancy.

[Arnie Cunningham]

Certainly some of the silicone hose manufacturers will custom make you a hose - but - you'll be paying for all the extra effort of making a new mandrel.
Roose Motorsport, amongst others, were prepared to do this for a marine engine hose I needed - but it wasn't really commercially viable for a one off.

[Order66]

As above, you can buy all sorts of hoses and connectors. I've bought a lot from these guys:
https://www.carbuilder.com/uk/

and you can buy any amount of silicone hose and fittings on ebay or somewhere like demon tweeks.

[lightweight73]

Thanks all. I will look at the recommendations. This particular hose will have to be flexible or it will become almost impossible to fit.

[GreenV8S]

If the OEM hose is reinforced rubber and out of sight, you consider treating this as a puncture repair problem.

[geeman237]

Worth trying to find a good used one?

[lightweight73]

Thankfully this turned out better than I thought. Which is good as getting the dam hose out would probably involve sitting on the engine. What I thought was a split was the edge of a reinforcement piece. Now it's just the mangled end where some @hole screwed up the clamps without ensuring it was fitted correctly.
Thanks for all the suggestions though as I know a lot of the hoses are NLA now and most are rock hard.