'87 5kcstq Turbo Cooling Line

[Robert Myers]

Ben,

On the way to Audifest '98 at Hayes, KS, one of the turbo coolant hoses on 
my '89 200tq sprang a leak.  An hour or so of one of our traveling 
companions (thanks again, Brendan) under the car with a couple of pieces of 
FLAPS hose and a couple of hose clamps and a faceful of coolant we had a 
perfectly good jerry rigged emergency repair.  When I got around to 
installing a "better" replacement hose some months later the jerry rigged 
repair was still holding quite nicely with no sign that the second 
replacement was actually necessary.

I suspect that you could rig a very effective and more or less permanent 
repair costing only a few bucks.

At 02:53 PM 3/19/01 -0500, Swann, Benjamin R. (BSWANN) wrote:


>I will need to attend to the cooling line that goes from the turbo into the
>freeze plug on my 5kcstqw, soon, as it is starting to leak.  Dealer price is
>around $170 and even with a 20% Q-Club discount, that is rather steep.
>
>I recall seeing some posts awhile back about alternatives.  I have one off
>of a turbo I salvaged from junkyard, and it seems that one of these could be
>fabricated using the proper compression fitting, and the crimped rubber end
>seems like massive overkill that could be taken care of with substantial
>hose clamps.  Any BTDT?  Sources for the correct compression fittings and
>tubing?  Or, the whole thing for not too much $$?
>
>TIA,
>
>Ben
>'875kcstqw @ 150kmi+ and 2Bar boost getting ready for summer long trip and
>towing duty.
>
>
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