Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 07:52:42 -0400
Reply-To: Kenneth Wilford <kenwilfy@COMCAST.NET>
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From: Kenneth Wilford <kenwilfy@COMCAST.NET>
Subject: Re: hoses in general
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I would say that hoses are a wear item. No matter how good they look, they
wear out over time. The 1.9l hoses are become harder and harder to get. So
if you say, well my hoses look fine (and they may be) and wait a couple more
years to replace them, you might get the shock of finding out that you can
no longer get hoses for your van. Right now I can still get any hose for
the 1.9l (not 83.5s though, but we can retrofit). I have these hoses in
stock and I think you will find that my coolant hose kit prices are actually
cheaper than the Bus Depot (can it be? Shocked expression on many faces!).
My other big plus is that I actually have coolant hoses and metal pipes for
the Vanagon in stock (another shocked experession) instead of having a
really cheap price on something that I actually don't have (not pointing
fingers, but point, point!).
So if you need coolant hoses now, give me a call or email. If you think you
might need them in the future, please print out my diagram, put it in the
van, and give me a call from your cell phone on the side of the road with
the kids screaming bloody murder in the background (the choice is yours):-)
Here are the links to the coolant hose pages:
http://www.vanagain.com/19lchc.htm
http://www.vanagain.com/19l2chc.htm
http://www.vanagain.com/21lchc.htm
http://www.vanagain.com/21lschc.htm
Thanks,
Ken Wilford
John 3:16
http://www.vanagain.com
Phone: (856)-327-4936
Fax: (856)-327-2242
----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com]On Behalf
Of patrice b
Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 8:05 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: hoses in general
That link to the Depot's page of coolant hoses and its package deal of all
hoses made me wonder. I have an 85 1.9L manual trans, and a few of the
big hoses are getting a little soft...when I was having a local (non
Vanagon expert) mechanic help me with the coolant flush this spring I asked
what he thought about the hoses. He said that next spring if I was going
to flush again (there was green stuff i there from PO...it's blue-ish now,
but the flush was not able to get out every lil bit of green stuff, so I
thought I'd repeat in a year) that it would be a good time to re-do some of
the hoses.
Question: if a person were to just change out all the hoses (since they
will be old enough to vote by spring)
-- is there anything else one would want to do at that time?
-- Are some of these hoses a gigantic pain in the pitooty to get to?
-- what about the metal pipes?
-- and is it a good/bad/neutral idea to get rid of the spring clamps on
those big hoses and go with screw-on clamp rings?
(mechanic was cursing at those when he put in the new bleeder
valve at that time)
Thank you in advance for your thoughts
--Patrice
85GL "VanaBlue"