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That's the hose and that little round device there I believe is a dryer filter you'll have to replace that whole piece of hose I think it bolts on after that dryer and it unbolts at the condenser which is in front of the radiator it's the radiator for the Freon and then after that's done someone will need to use a vacuum pump to pull a vacuum then leave that vacuum sit for 30 minutes Make sure the gauge doesn't move then gas it back up with pick your poison the gas at the shop has for the listing for your car probably 134a

 

You should be able to take that off of junk car without any problems. That's rare for that to break there like that I think there's a little bracket or something that's supposed to hold that hose from not vibrating but I'm not sure of that and even buying that hose I don't think it would be a too expensive of a proposition I know years ago I used to buy them for relatively cheap I don't know how bad it's gotten since then I even had my Napa dealer make me up some hoses for an older Corolla that were costly from the dealer or supplier was much cheaper to have them fabbed up by a local hose maker It's not really rocket science they do it for trucks and buses in every town Napa had the machine at their store and could get the ends from their supplier for about $12 a piece so it was a no-brainer.

 

I was just about to say that hose does not look original to me. The discharge hoses for the Gen 3 Prius do not have that round greeble at the end:

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But then I looked at the discharge hose for a Prius v (the station wagon, not a Prius liftback in model V), and sure enough, the hose for a Prius v has it:

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So this thread maybe belongs in the Prius v forum.

I'm not sure what that thing is. The parts list doesn't say (calls it "discharge hose" just like the one in the liftback) and there's still the receiver drier on the side of the condenser (88474 here), same place it is in the liftback.



By the way, as the system has been open to air with that hose broken, that 88474 receiver drier should also be replaced, along with the busted hose, before evacuating and recharging the system.

 

General nomenclature is: the low pressure hose (evaporator to compressor) is the suction hose, the high pressure (compressor to condenser) is the discharge hose. Condenser to the expansion device is the liquid line.

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That much is clear. But why the discharge hose on the (otherwise rather similar) Gen 3 liftback and the Prius v has an extra round greeble for the v that it doesn't have in the liftback version, and just what the greeble is, I still don't know.

 

I always thought they were some kind of a filter a line filter not necessarily a dryer You have the remote normal dryer mounted in the thing is just a filter maybe it's nothing I thought they were called filters. Some Toyota's have them some don't Why I have no clue if it's just an extra filter so in case the compressor explodes maybe it'll stop most all the shrapnel down there on the compressor side of this thing I don't know maybe not