Why not just cut off the old hoses and replace them too? No offense intended but your hoses don't look to be in the best shape, are they original? While you are at it replace the bypass hose too if your truck has one. New hoses and clamps do not cost much and can be bought at Napa or any good parts store. It will be cheap insurance plus your Dad will know you did the whole job right the first time so you won't have to doi it over again later just to replace hoses..

Jimmy

 

01SilverCC has a good point about the hoses, thats what i did with my truck, plus the bypass hose on mine was ugly and i was driving to Tennessee the next day. changing that little sucker on the side of the road would not be fun.

 

Tried the using the nail and it didn't work for me..I'm guessing cause of the flange (am i right?) on the pump side.

If I were to just replace the hose (hence cutting it) what would I have to remove to replace the thing and use normal clamps instead of these hard to deal with ones?

 

No offense is taken, I'm learning as I go so I'll replace this hose now and then replace the other ones once I get some more money saved up since I can't drive it now anyway..just trying to get it running to where I can drive it

Edit: And I bought it off my neighbor for 650 cause he was just wanting to get rid of it, so I'm going to turn it into a lil project truck. That was the only thing wrong with for all as I know, so we just pushed it out of his driveway and rolled it down into ours.

 

its possible

to replace the bypass hose you would remove the a/c compressor and alternator which is pretty easy, then remove the aluminum bracket that they sit on. and for the a/c compressor you dont have to disconnect the lines from it so you dont lose your freon. just set it out of the way and be careful not to kink the lines.