Question about heater hose connections on 273 2 barrel (1967 barracuda)

[Shanewatson]

Hi, I have a question regarding the two orange hoses in the attached pictures on my 273 2 barrel 67 Barracuda.

The first one is an older picture of my car and the two orange hoses looks like a normal setup that I have seen on other cars along with my previous 67 barracuda.
The second picture is the current connection, which has one orange hose going to both inlet/outlet connections on the firewall, and a shorter orange hose from I think the water pump to the engine.

Does anyone know why a previous owner would change the hose connections like this, or if it is okay?

I was going to buy two new hoses and reconnect a hose to the inlet and one to the outlet on the firewall, but wanted to see if anyone has any insight into this.

Thanks in advance for any info.
Shane

 

[RustyRatRod]

Yup. It's got a bad heater core, so they bypassed it.

 

[67Dart273]

Either that or it was used in a hot climate, they never used the heater and wanted to keep all the heat they could out of the pass compartment.

 

[Oldmanmopar]

By the length of the hoses it looks the hoses were cut and designed to connect and disconnect the heater core. I would say the heater box blend door didn't work or the cable was broke. So this is the way they shut off the heat into the car.

. Or the heater core was leaking and they disconnected it . The way it was done it could be hooked back up without buying new hoses after core replacement. You could not have done this on a 70 or newer car the hoses are different sizes.

 

[Shanewatson]

Thanks everyone for the replies. The previous owner was in AZ so maybe that is why they changed it. I don't plan on ever using heat as I live in southern California, but will have the heater core looked at.

Thanks again, Shane

 

[Oldmanmopar]

I had a car that I didn't need the heat and the core leaked. I plugged the hoses at the core and put them on to give it the factory look.