[DML] Re: Contiguous Heater Core Return Hose

["content22207" <brobertson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have 3 plus feet of hose, non-stop from the aluminum pipe under the
car to the back of the pump. If the car's next owner can't figure out
how to buy 5/8" heater hose by the foot, he has no business working on
an engine. Coolant hoses aren't exactly rocket science.

BTW: that steel pipe *IS* a design flaw. Look at how many owners have
posted to the List complaining about its deteriorated condition. Mine
was pitiful too. Makes no sense to replace it with another pipe that
will only deteriorate like the original. Its only purpose doesn't
apply to me anyway -- I do have all day to remove the intake manifold
and run a hose, unlike assembly line workers in a factory.

I have been contacted off List by someone questioning whether the heater 
core line Martin and I are discussing is really a return line, or whether 
it is in fact a supply line -- it is a return line. I've uploaded a Volvo 
PRV diagram documenting such to #5939's photo album. Of course direction of 
fluid travel has no bearing on Martin's and my disagreement whether a 
rubber hose under the intake manifold is safe or not.

Bill Robertson
#5939

>--- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Martin Gutkowski <webmaster@xxxx> wrote:
> You do what you're happy with. Personally, if there's no reason to 
> change something on the car (eg poor original design, design flaws) why 
> bother? We have these pipes in stock, you can use a bit of hose if you 
> wish, and tell everyone it's a great idea if that's your poison. The 
> next owner will think that's the way it should be and will try to order 
> that bit of hose when it fails....... you have no idea the number of 
> "bodged" fixes we have to work through on our customers' cars.
> 
> Martin
> 





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