Air comp. coolant line?

[Busted Knuckle]

That sounds like a plan for your coolant hose.
But take my word for it on the air discharge hose and buy it from MCI (or what ever brand manufacture your bus is), or Bendix that hose has a LOT of heat and pressure and the hoses NAPA makes up will not last (BTDT!) The last thing you want is to be in Podunkville @ dark thirty and have that hose blow! You'll be right there until you get a replacement and it's not a fun one to change!
  BK 

[bevans6]

The manual says to replace the air discharge hose with new whenever you install a new compressor.  Speaks to the strain it is under.

Brian

[challenger440]

Only working on coolant hoses at the moment.  The air hose looks like a real beast.  Metal wrapped. Visually looks ok.  I  never  really thought about the torture the air hose must go through. jm

[Highway Yacht]

As Bevans pointed out...it is very important to make sure the re-useable ends you are using are made for the particular hose that you have. That doesn't mean that an Aeroquip -8 reusealbe end will work on all -8 Aeroquip hoses. There are many types of hoses on the market that are made for either crimp or swadged fittings only and a re-usable end will not work properly.  There was a fire many years ago in a food proessing plant near here where several people died. The cause of the fire was determined to be that someone had used an Aeroquip hose end on a Parker hose on one of the machines. The hose end blew off under pressure and sprayed hot cooking oil everywhere. Somehow the cooking oil ignited.

Jimmy