Re: Overheating (factory original heater hoses)

["content22207" <brobertson@xxxx>]

This just proves the point I've been over-making recently: are too
many cars running around with factory original (translated: 21 year
old) hoses in cooling system. I know I sound like a broken record, but
this is too serious an issue to neglect. You don't want to overheat an
aluminum engine. Replacing the big formed hoses IS important, but it
is only part of the story. Every drop of coolant that passes through
them will eventually make its way through heater core lines and the
lines hidden under intake manifold as well.

Am waiting to see if a rash of broken hoses arises similar to TAB and
lower control arm failures.

Re: difficult to reach clamp -- next time just cut it off with a pair
of aviation snips. Use a utility knife to make V shaped notch in hose
for blades to fit under band. 

Bill Robertson
#5939

>--- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "vin2105" <phil@xxxx> wrote:
> Just went through this bleeding procedure on Sunday. 
> 
> I had driven across town to get some stuff to spiff up the car for a
parade this coming 
> week and as I got close to home I noticed the rear window was a
little foggy on the 
> outside. As I turned on to my street I saw a cloud of steam rolling
out the back. 
> Parked in the driveway and opened the engine compartment to find the
heater hose 
> thats hidden under the distributor had a small split.
> 
> Spent the rest of the afternoon replacing the heater hoses and
heater shut off valve. 
> Fortunatly, I had the hose kit from DMCH sitting in the garage and I
was able to find a 
> heater shutoff valve that fit at NAPA. Not my first choice but it
fits and works. 
> 
> The heater hoses were the original ones and someone at the factory
must have had a 
> wicked sense of humor. From the looks of things, they installed the
hoses before the 
> body was mated to the frame. Where the hose connects to the pipe by
the TAB, the 
> head on the clamp was installed facing up leaving no practical way
to loosen it. Spent 
> a half hour with stubby .25 inch wrench loosening it a fration of a
turn at a time.
> 
> I lost about a gallon and a half of coolant including what drained
out when i took the 
> hoses off but after bleeding every thing is fine. 
> 
> I'm glad it happened now rather than in the middle of the parade
next week.
> 
> Phil