Its an 03, 85K, 4.4. The system has been flushed before, about 30K miles ago.
My quick fix was to get me through the month when I could have more time to replace the hose. But I was not expecting to replace the expansion tank too. My concern was that the broken piece of the floater could potentially get sucked through the system and get caught somewhere... Thanks for the feed back I appreciate your advise.