Years ago I replaced one steel coolant line with marine hose, rubber. Greenline I think. This was in my old 82 diesel that I converted to 1800 gasser. It worked fine for the 10 years I ran that van. This was full length from engine to rad. But one caveat, it was only the one line that was replaced, I ran the new line rubber line parallel to remaining steel. It was a tight fit through the body members. I don't think I could have ran two rubber lines. Alistair
> On May 11, 2017, at 8:01 AM, Neil N <musomuso@GMAIL.COM> wrote: > > Hi all. This is regarding a Jetta ABA engine in a Vanagon. > > I intend to replace 2 coolant flex hoses on my Vanagon with 1.25" hose > from my local semi truck repair shop. It's on order. It's application > may be for a semi truck heater core circuit. A similar 1" hose I saw > at this shop took a large radius 90ยบ bend which for my uses, would be > ideal. > > IF this new 1.25" hose is intended for heater core circuit, would > (possibly) hotter coolant straight from the engine cause it to balloon > out or otherwise fail prematurely? The longest piece would be about > 3'. The flex hoses I'm replacing have a thinner wall construction. > > If this hose is ok for this application, it might be of use for other > engine swappers requiring custom hoses. It might eliminate some > cooling hose unions. > > Neil. > > > > -- > Neil n > > Blog: Vanagons, Westfalia, general <http://tubaneil.blogspot.ca> > > 1988 Westy Images <https://picasaweb.google.com/musomuso/New1988Westy> > > 1981 Westfalia "Jaco" Images, technical <http://tubaneil.googlepages.com/> > > Vanagon-Bus VAG Gas Engine Swap Group <http://tinyurl.com/khalbay> |
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