Date:         Fri, 15 May 2009 10:50:09 -0400
Reply-To:     Ken Wilford <kenwilfy@COMCAST.NET>
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From:         Ken Wilford <kenwilfy@COMCAST.NET>
Subject:      Re: GoWesty coolant repair kit vs SS pipes
Comments: To: John Bange <jbange@GMAIL.COM>
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What pops it out of the end of the pipe is coolant pressure not some
type of "toothpaste tube squeeze" effect.  Think about it, is the clamp
getting tighter and tighter like the toothpaste tube?  Of course not.
You can hit your pipe ends back in with a hammer and sometimes get six
months or a year out of them before they pop off again but they could
also pop off in the next 10 miles.  It is a time bomb just waiting to go
off (in my opinion).  Why chance it?

Just my opinion,
Ken Wilford
John 3:16
www.vanagain.com


John Bange wrote:
>> Don't try to explain how the Go Westy kit works to me.  I am just not
>> that smart.  I guess you have to be an engineer to understand it.
>>
>
> You know I have to try now that you've said that. Theory is that the
> hose clamp squeezes the steel insert out of the plastic pipe like
> toothpaste out of a tube. Once the insert is squeezed out, the pipe
> collapses enough to allow the hose to slip off. GoWesty fix is to
> stick a brass insert in the hose, clamped in place right in front of
> the plastic pipe, so when the steel insert tries to "squirt out", it
> runs into the brass insert and can go no further. Very simple.
>
> The stainless pipes are probably tougher, but how much of a beating do
> the pipes really take?
>
>