Can't comment on the expansion tank, but a good friend welded up a manifold for the octopus tube you described. Beat the heck out of replacing the original... This is the way I'll go when I do my I4 conversion. John 90 Carat 82 Diesel
> For the hoses, (dreaded octopus breaking in the middle of nowhere...) > maybe it's trickier to find direct replacements. At a show I saw one > guy who had made a "manifold" replacing the "octopus" part where > the various hoses join. With this he could use pieces of standard > hose to connect to to the engine. Repairs become easy. |
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