Coolant expansion tank replacement

[steve00s]

My time has now come to replace the coolant expansion tank as it's leaking and I am a little uncertain about the task at hand. I have searched all the forums about the process and other's experience with this and have read mixed things about the difficulty.

It seems that the real pain is getting up underneath the engine side of the firewall to replace the three inner water hoses while the tank itself and the outer three hoses (plus oil filler and dipstick) are readily accessible from the trunk. My question is if I do NOT replace the three inner hoses is it really as easy as it appears.