I've just finished replacing all the hoses on my 87GL. I was surprised to see just how many seemed to be in pretty good shape. The van has probably close to 200K on it, as I've just replaced the odometer cable and it's showing 115,000 (and I know it's been broke for at least 5 years). Anyway...seems like the only hoses that actually ever broke on it (since I've owned it) were at the front and rear on the right head. I did put in a water pump once before and may have redid a hose there it seems... Tony Steve wrote: > As much as i'd like to, i cannot afford to do a > preventative-maitenance replacement of all of my coolant > hoses. But at nearly 10 years old and 100k miles, my van's > hoses are reaching the point where failures may be > expected. It would be nice to know if particular hoses > routinely fail, or fail with more frequeancy than other > hoses. > > Please tell us about your hose failures so we can see if > there are certain hoses more prone to failure than others so > we can replace them even if we can't afford to replace 'em > all. > > steve |
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