Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:03:03 +0000
Reply-To: Trvlr2001@COMCAST.NET
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: "John C..." <Trvlr2001@COMCAST.NET>
Subject: Re: AC High Side - line leak - rubber hose
> Won't you need it as a template for the replacement?
Hi Mike,
Yup! Save the pieces. ( We're only talking 3 or 4 :o)
JC...
-------------- Original message --------------
From: Mike Miller <mwmiller@cwnet.com>
> Won't you need it as a template for the replacement?
>
>
>
> On 6/18/08 12:18 PM, "John C..." wrote:
>
> >> You can snake the old one out in less than half an hour. Putting
> >> the new one back in, with a bottle of soap handy, is easier than removing
> >> the old hardened hose.
> >
> > Cut the bugger in sections --- it will fall out.
> > JC...
> > -------------- Original message --------------
> > From: Jim Felder
> >
> >> I agree with Ken. I just did that, and the cost was as he quoted. Don't buy
> >> the hose. You can snake the old one out in less than half an hour. Putting
> >> the new one back in, with a bottle of soap handy, is easier than removing
> >> the old hardened hose.
> >> Jim
> >>
> >>
> >> On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 11:45 AM, Ken Wilford wrote:
> >>
> >>> Take your old line off, go to a local A/C shop or hydraulic hose shop,
> >>> get them to make you a new one, it will be around $95 or maybe less.
> >>> That is the cheapest/best way to go. Hope this helps,
> >>> Ken Wilford
> >>> John 3:16
> >>> www.vanagain.com
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Jack R. wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> My 84 Westy has a leak in the AC line, (high side) in the rubber hose,
> >>>> about
> >>>> 12 inches from the compressor, beyond the ridged line.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> I price the replacement hose which runs from the back all the way forward
> >>>> to
> >>>> the condenser, the cost of this line in excess of $325.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> I wondered if anyone has come up with an alternate solution to replacing
> >>>> the
> >>>> entire line.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Any suggestions welcome. no rush, as it is currently 59 degrees in
> >>>> Detroit!!! But, I know summer is going to be here soon. I hope!
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks!
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Jack R.
> >>>>
> >>>> 84 Westy Wolfie.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
>
>
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