Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 21:35:57 -0400
Reply-To: "G. Matthew Bulley" <gmbulley@BULLEY-HEWLETT.COM>
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From: "G. Matthew Bulley" <gmbulley@BULLEY-HEWLETT.COM>
Organization: Bulley-Hewlett
Subject: Re: hoses in general
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There is a special set of pliers with little 'nipples' that fit the
orifice on those snap rings. The pliers come in two or three sizes.
Swipe a couple of pairs next time you're at the dealer, or ask your
'Snap-on/Cornwell/Mac" tool guy. Owning a pair or two will make hose
replacement a pastime to enjoy, rather than a bothersome nuisance.
Developing business and guiding change since 1996,
G. Matthew Bulley
Bulley-Hewlett
Marketing & Communications
Business: www.bulley-hewlett.com
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-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM] On Behalf
Of Dennis Haynes
Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 8:31 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: hoses in general
The spring clamps are used fro two reasons. One ,they are faster to
install when nothing is in the way. Two, they can expand and contract
with temperature changes maintaining a better seal long term with out
damaging the hoses. This is particularly important with hoses that are
connected to plastic parts.
Dennis
-----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"