Spent most of yesterday afternoon and this morning. I didn't see how the metal pipes to the heater were ever going to come off without pulling the AC and/or whole motor. I finally cut the swage fittings in place with a Dremel and abrasive blade and pried off the metal with a screwdriver. As someone thoughtfully pointed out earlier, with this type of hose no specal clamp is needed so I used the stock ones and bought additional ones for the heater hoses at the parts store. I don't think you could do this swap without removing the alternator as well as the intake elbow and associated plumbing over to the air filter. Had I needed to, this would have been a good time to do plug wires, judging from the loom configuration, you couldn't get them out without the generator out. Thanks for the help folks.

 

how does it look?

 

Great if you like blue hoses. I don't think the mix of stock and ring clamps looks very good. I'm going to get more stock ones so they all match eventually.