if you use braided stainless hose, the steering would never damage it even
if it was in constant contact.
of course its not to everyone's taste - especially in a stock car.
On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 4:10 AM, A. C. Tynes <v8tracker@gmail.com> wrote:
> Tony, et al,
>
> After the steering u-joint rubbed a hole in one of my oil hoses, I got a
> straight piece and a u-shaped piece of steel tubing that would fit inside
> the rubber oil hoses and four alligator clamps for double clamping. I
> figured I could either cut and splice together a leaking hose with the
> straight piece or cut both hoses and bypass the filter completely with the
> u-shaped piece.
>
> Fortunately, I never got the chance to test my "repair kit". I also got
> into
> the habit of looking at the hoses every time I was under the hood.
>
> I will say that I was wide awake when I got to work that morning after
> tooling along at 70+ and seeing a huge cloud of smoke erupt from the front
> of the car while the oil pressure went to zero.
>
> HTH,
> A. C. Tynes
> New Orleans
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: tigers-bounces@autox.team.net
> > [mailto:tigers-bounces@autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Tony Somebody
> > Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2009 7:26 PM
> > To: rfraser@bluefrog.com
> > Cc: Beamclub
> > Subject: Re: [Tigers] Oil line routing
> >
> > Ron- the link doesnt worrk- try again please- Im curious BUT
> > if you have stock hoses, they pretty much only fit the way
> > they are suppose to BUT many remade hoses about Im sure- mine
> > are to long to use the filter bracket- wrong headers to use
> > the shorty filter which I rather have. A busted line stops U
> > dead. I tried plugging the hole one time- that resulted in
> > zero psi. If anyone knows a way to run with no hoses/filter,
> > I would like to know for road side break downs.
> > TtT
> >
> > --- On Tue, 12/29/09, Ron Fraser <rfraser@bluefrog.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > From: Ron Fraser <rfraser@bluefrog.com>
> > Subject: Re: [Tigers] Oil line routing
> > To: "'Alan Zeni'" <tiger@missiongranite.com>, "'tiger'"
> > <tigers@autox.team.net>
> > Date: Tuesday, December 29, 2009, 6:44 PM
> >
> >
> > Alan
> > About the only diagram of the stock oil filter is Plate D
> > Section AF in the parts list.
> >
> > http://www.tigersunited.com/resources/parts_rs260/Parts_List/2
> > -AF-EngineMoto
> > r.pdf
> >
> > Hope that helps
> >
> > Ron Fraser
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: tigers-bounces@autox.team.net
> > [mailto:tigers-bounces@autox.team.net]
> > On Behalf Of Alan Zeni
> > Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2009 3:49 PM
> > To: tiger
> > Subject: [Tigers] Oil line routing
> >
> >
> > I'm looking for pics/diagram of the stock remote filter
> > routing. I seem to have the angle wrong on the block adapter
> > and want to double check the line routings. Any help would
> > be appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks
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