Turbo Oil And Water Lines

[Keith Lawyer]

Well, for the water lines there's option #4 which I'm assuming your avoiding because it's kinda hokey, which is to cut the existing fitting off there and clamp fresh hose on.

Once you cut the hose off you'll find it's nothing more than a basically standard barbed fitting.  Depending upon where you are the only issue might be finding metric hose of the right size.

This is what I did on our Type 44 a couple years ago, it's still working (crossing fingers as we go on a weekend road trip tonight).

I'm not necessarily endorsing this, but there's no denying that it's CHEAP lol

Keith L

>>> Alex Kowalski <akowalsk at comcast.net> 02/18/05 01:53PM >>>
Because of the age of my car, I've been thinking of replacing the oil and water lines on the turbo.  I've been underneath the car, and while the existing ones look OK, so did the one that burst at the fitting on my '86 a few years ago (making me a kind of Bad Puppy II.)  Around that time, there were a few threads that talked about options for replacing the hoses, which basically came down to:

1) Talk to someone at Parker Hannifin
2) Find a company near you expert in hydraulic lines, show up with your originals and have a new set fabbed.
3) Buy new ones from the dealer (ouch! $$$)

Recently I saw a set of replacement lines online, they looked very nice, but were made to fit a hybrid turbo, not the stock unit.  034EFI makes them for the 10v turbo, but not the stock 'charger -- only one of their hybrids.  They're also $300.

http://www.034efi.com/product_info.php?cPath=21_33&products_id=47 

Is option #2 still feasible?  Has anyone replaced their lines recently?

TIA,
Alex Kowalski
'87 5KCSTQ