In a message dated 98-10-09 23:19:54 EDT, walker05@camosun.bc.ca writes:
> It occurs to me that I probably won't be able to get the OEM spec rad
> hoses locally.
>
> Has anyone got one that they could measure for me? I was thinking of
> getting a hose off the shelf that had the proper bend in it and cutting to
> suit.
> So, I'd need:
> inside diameter
> angle of bend (approx...)
> length overall
Reminds me of the night in L.A. in Dec. ''66 when the small buy-pass connector
hose at the top of the water pump let go. It was 12 midnight; my wife and her
grandmother, at whose house we had been staying for the holidays, had had a
tiff and we had packed up the 3 week old first child and were heading for a
motel. Bingo, that great smell of coolant boiling into the atmosphere.
Pulled into a service station - in those days they were SERVICE stations. The
mechanic and I scratched our heads - I mean who even then carried Triumph
hoses. We finally cut a garden hose, clamped it in place and filled it with
H2O. As one of my old mechnanics used to say - IMPROVISE. It worked for
enough time to get to a dealer (yep- they used to be around also) and get a
new hose.
Malcolm, I've got an old top by-pass hose and one of the two which connect to
the metal "hose". I carry them for emergencies (we never have an "emergency"
which requires what we are carrying :-).)Let me know which one you need and I
can measure it for you. Cheers.
Art Kelly OOPS
Just saw your second message:
>Forgot to mention that this is for the lower 2 hoses, that go "around" the
>bent metal pipe.
>I guess then I won't need the ID as I can just measure the OD of the pipe
>and subtract a little bit :-)
Yep. Cheers.
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