Date:         Thu, 15 Aug 2002 17:04:56 -0700
Reply-To:     patrice b <prb@TELEVAR.COM>
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From:         patrice b <prb@TELEVAR.COM>
Subject:      hoses in general
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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"