Turbo guys put a raised lip on their aluminum intercooler pipes with a fabricated vise grip tool. I lifted this quote from a webpage: "Get a pair of cheap vise grips and take a file to the jaws. Leave a bump on one side and create a trough on the other jaw. You have to work it around the pipe and keep tightening it up. The results ain't pretty, but you do get a bead and it is under the hose and works (just not on heavy wall pipe). You actually do not need a bead all the way around, just enough on two sides so the clamp cannot back over it."
-----Original Message----- From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of Alan Felder Sent: Sunday, November 08, 2009 10:41 PM To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM Subject: Re: You can blame Me - was: steel coolant pipes 82 diesel Westy On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 6:45 PM, mark drillock <mdrillock@cox.net> wrote: > > > I bet the metal is thick enough that a bead could be welded around the > ends to be spliced. Likely not too many clams to do so. > > I will probably attempt to braze a wire ring around the rear pipes since they will be out, and jbweld a similar ring on my installed pipes. All will have to be re-cut to align hoses so they won't interfere, as in Craig's previous post. > > -- > Alan Felder > Austin TX > 82 Diesel Westy > |
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