dear hose 4 fail please repost with the four hoses named so those with out subbie repower may plan for thank you On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 6:24 PM, Richard A Jones <jones@colorado.edu> wrote: > > btw......the hoses that wear the most are the ones that get the hottest - > > usually ones on top of the engine. > > Soon after I got my '87 Syncro in 2001, I asked my mechanic about > replacing hoses. He has many years of experience with many > Vanagons, and he commented that there were four hoses that > were the most common to fail. I put spares of those four on > board and drove for years until a hose started spewing coolant > at Syncro Safari '08. It was one of those four. > > I'd look up which four and give part numbers but my Syncro > is at the mechanic's getting a bunch of new hoses--connected > to a Subaru 2.5 engine. ;-) > > Richard >
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