[s-cars] Samco Hose Owners (From Group buy in Q3/2003):LowerIChose too short?

[Kirby Smith]

Heh!  Definitely the economical solution.

kirby


Igor Kessel wrote:
> 
> Kirby Smith wrote:
> 
> > Over the past year or so my Michelin-man hose seemed to be too short
> > (I've had it for several years), and the hose clamp kept sliding off the
> > end on the plastic cross-over pipe.  I suspect k24 turbo-compressed
> > inlet air, which is very hot at 1.3 bar, aged the plastic, both
> > shrinking it in length and diameter.  I now have an NEA aluminum
> > crossover and haven't had any clamp problems since it was installed.
> >
> > kirby
> 
> Kirby,
> my plastic crossover tube kept caving in at the end and blowing off the
> Samco hose until I finally pressed in as a reinforcement a suitable DIA
> piece of galvanised pipe which I found on the exhaust tube adapter rack
> at a local Pep Boys.
> 
> --
> Igor Kessel
> two turbo quattros