I think I am going to cast my vote against the trend. While changing all
the hoses sounds like a good idea, and maybe it is, this can be a lot of
hoses and a fair bit of work. My '66 Ford had one line to the distributor
and one to the transmission. By the late eighties, however, things became
quite a bit more complicated. There are lots of places that can leak that
are not hoses. Anyway, what I am saying is that it is nice to find the
leak if you can!
One really slick looking way to do this is with smoke. Check out:
http://www.thesmokemachine.com/homepage.html
I have never tried this myself, but it looks really interesting. The
equipment is too expensive for the average shadetree mechanic,
unfortunately. If you find someone with this setup, though, I would
imagine you could pay for a "smoke diagnosis". Occasionally, I think I
could probably build something like that. My old Lionel locomotive could
make smoke. How hard can that be? Usually I'm working hard to NOT make
smoke. Anyway, I have a few dozen projects queued up ahead of that
one. Good luck with whatever you decide.
-Steve Trovato
trovato@computer.net
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