Original color of vacuum hoses?

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Original color of vacuum hoses?

Postby Jitterbugdude » Mon Jul 21, 2008 10:29 am

Back in the 70's and 80's I had several Vega's. Sold them, bought another one recently. I have 2 spare engines and one of them has an orange vacuum line attached to it. I seem to recall my engines from years ago also had orange vacuum lines. So now I'm wondering, was orange a factory color vacuum line or were these just an aftermarket color?

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Re: Original color of vacuum hoses?

Postby cjbiagi » Mon Jul 21, 2008 11:37 am

I don't remember any orange lines although many of them did have a colored line on them to identify where they went.
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Re: Original color of vacuum hoses?

Postby Jitterbugdude » Mon Jul 21, 2008 9:09 pm

I remember the black lines with the stripe too but these are bright orange. I'm curious becasue it seems odd that GM would make them but it also seems odd that they would be an aftermarket item.
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Re: Original color of vacuum hoses?

Postby cjbiagi » Mon Jul 21, 2008 10:19 pm

I am pretty certain they are not original GM hoses. Maybe some dress up item offered by someone.
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Re: Original color of vacuum hoses?

Postby spyder_xlch » Tue Jul 22, 2008 12:01 am

I've seen colored hoses for the HVAC.
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