Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 14:56:43 -0400
Reply-To: dieselwesty <dieselwesty@YAHOO.COM>
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From: dieselwesty <dieselwesty@YAHOO.COM>
Subject: Re: [DIESEL] Reinhardt Lives!! (well, almost ...) {Longish}
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In doing my engine conversion I to had a hole in my original steel pipe at
the engine compartment side. When I read in the Bentley what was involved
in making the swap to plastic pipes, I did not want to go that route.
With the motor and trans out of van, it made things easy to work on this
area. I cut about a foot of the end of the upper pipe. It rusted where the
pipe is hose clamped to the holding bracket at the top of the engine
cowling.
I went to a marine/auto parts store and got a 1 foot piece of 1 1/4 inch
rubber hose used for cooling diesel engines in boats. It had just the right
inner dimension to fit snuggly over the outside of the steel coolant pipe
that I just cut off and a piece of threaded brass pipe about 6 inches long
that I was going to use to join the new piece of hose to my rubber coolant
hose going to the head.
I have filled the van with coolant, and will start her up for the first time
tomorrow. We will see how this fix holds up under
pressure....................
Bryan Belman Pt. Pleasant, NJ
1990 Audi 200 Turbo (Money Pit)
1982 Westy 1.9l NA (In process)
1970 Type1 Std. Beetle (This one is done)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan Conway" <Alan.Conway@morganstanley.com>
To: "Nate Wall" <NWall@envasns.org>
Cc: <Vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>; <echomhs@gis.net>; <diesel@audifans.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 1:28 PM
Subject: Re: [DIESEL] Reinhardt Lives!! (well, almost ...) {Longish}
> Wow, I took the expensive route, I put in the plastic VW pipes and new
radiator hoses, all of which cost about $600-00. I did it because I did not
have the time to try and find/fit something else but I see I could have
saved a lot of money. I had to take the fuel tank out and it was pretty easy
to do that. The hardest part was draining it without making
> a mess with the diesel.
>
> Alan
>
> Nate Wall wrote:
>
> > <<<So now, I must repair the pipes. I'm thinking about going the route
of the
> > large truck heater hoses, instead of the electrical conduit.>>>
> >
> > I made a draft tube for my '85 TD once and used 7/8 inch truck heater
hose I got from one of those heavy duty truck dealers. I think it was about
$2.00 a foot, so that would be expensive for two times the length of a
vanagon. ($60??). I like the electrical conduit idea.
> >
> > Also, what about PCV plumbing pipe. Its cheap. Once glued w/ the
special solvent, it will never come loose. I think it will take the heat
too. I guess you could sweat solder copper pipe, but that would be fairly
expensive too. But as far as I know, VW coolant systems do not have copper
or brass in them, hence a phosphate antifreeze is specified.
> >
> > What's the inner diameter of the coolant tubes?
> >
> > --Nate
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