Overview
A coolant hose connector is the molded joint that ties a rubber hose to a hard tube on a cooling or drain line. It is molded as one part: a barbed stem, a right angle body with a gusset, and a lock ring that snaps over the tube socket.
The hose pushes onto the barbed stem, and the rings step up the stem so the hose wall is gripped along its length, not at one lip. The other end takes the hard tube, and the lock ring slides over the socket until its tabs drop into the groove, so a coolant hose connector holds the joint with no clamp and no screw.
Key Features & Benefits
- Barbed stem: rings step up the stem and bite into the hose wall
- Lock ring: slides over the tube socket and drops its tabs into the groove
- Window in the ring: shows the ring has seated, so the joint is checked by eye
- Right angle body: turns the run with no second part
- Gusset at the bend: carries the wall through the turn
The ring and the socket come off one model, so a coolant hose connector locks on the same groove depth every time.
Customization Options
- Hose bore and stem length
- Barb count, pitch and height
- Bend radius and body angle
- Lock ring: diameter, tab count and window position
- Tube socket: depth and groove
- Gusset: size and placement
- Material: nylon, glass filled nylon or PPA
- Color: black, gray or a matched shade
A second bend angle can run on the same tool on a different insert, so one coolant hose connector body covers a straight run and a turn. A mounting lug can be molded on where the line ties to a bracket.
Quality & Delivery
Tooling for a coolant hose connector is cut in our own mold shop, and the first article is gauged against your 3D file, barb pitch and ring groove included, before the run is released.
Mold faces are polished to the sheen your 3D file calls for, the gate is trimmed flush, and the ring comes off the tool round, so each coolant hose connector seats on its socket and turns into the groove without a burr. Lead time is quoted with the unit price and held to the date, and each batch is gauged before packing.
We mold every coolant hose connector to your 3D file, so the barbs, the bend and the lock ring follow the model. Send the 3D file for a quotation with the tool cost and the unit price.
Related Capabilities
A barbed stem sits beside this coolant hose connector. Our hose barb fitting is a straight stem with no lock ring, and the threaded pipe elbow turns a line into a threaded port.
Where several lines meet, the five-way tube connector gathers them on one frame.
Molding runs in house on our mold making floor, with injection molding for the connector. Our automotive plastic parts page groups vehicle work, our capabilities page lists the cells and our works page shows past jobs.
