Damn these vacuum hoses!!

[agelder]

I am in the process of removing the carb from the engine (to rebuild it), and I am having vacuum hoses crack and snap in my hands trying to remove them!!!

Any suggestions on getting these hardened & brittle hoses off while keeping my knuckles (gonna replace the hoses, but they are just a #%@ to get off). Please help!!

[A20A1]

Needle nose pliers or needle nose clamping pliers.
and wear gloves.

[Mike's89AccordLX]

Needle nose pliers and a small flat head screw driver I found works great. To kinda pry it off the stem.

[87accordlxph]

Place your thumbs nails around the nipple of where the vaccume hose connects to and push the hose off w/ your thumb nails works great for me and no I don't have long nails. Just becareful not to push too hard since you want to save your knucles just give it some time and poof they creak and slip right off.

-Mike

[Mike's89AccordLX]

Or you can play it safe and keep your knuckles by using a screw driver like I said.

[87DX]

5/32 Vacum hose from any auto parts store. I needed about 20 feet.

While rebuilding my carb, I replaced EVERY hose I could find. It was a long process but it made taking the old hoses easy. You can just slice them right off.

15 feet of hose cost me around 6 bucks. Cheap and easy.

Just my $.2

Cheers,

Bob

[agelder]

Got 5 feet at the store today, if it's not enough I will just head on back (they probably miss me anyways after a few days). Taking a long time, but then I have to work after I get home from the office.