[s-cars] @#$%^&* hose clamp on vacuum hose connection to intake manifold

[brian hoeft]

Steve, you might fare well to find the end of that crimp on clamp, and get
just under the end of it with sidecutters/dikes/snips, to lift it over
another securing tab you might see folded over through an open square
cutout.

a really thin tipped flathead can work too..  once it pops all is good and
can be replaced with a worm drive clamp, but those crimp on type if sized
correctly really are nice. I used to hate them for years, but now keep a
steady stock of them handy.

Be gentle as you can on those intake hoses, but I think that stem youre
referring to has a hardened sleeve inside.

-brian



On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Steve Marinello <smarinello at entouch.net>wrote:

> So, I have wasted over an hour trying to get the freakin' hose clamp off
> the
> vacuum hose attaching to the intake manifold from the bypass valve.  It is
> clearly the original Audi piece, which is/was either one of those roll or
> pinch type clamps.  I remember that I did not deal with it when I put the
> Stratmosphere bypass valve on years ago, but in trying to find where the
> vacuum leak is, I noticed that the hose rotated freely at said connection.
> I also note that the clamp looked somewhat, umm, manhandled, and I have
> added my fair share of that.  At present, the outer metal wrap rotates
> pretty much freely, apparently over an inner band of metal.  I can't seem
> to
> get in there to improve the situation.  To complicate things, apparently
> when my mechanic did some work on the car, the screw clamp on the lower end
> of that hose was tightened from below before everything was reassembled, so
> I can't get at that end.  I figured I'd just disconnect the other lines to
> the valve and pull the connection at the intake manifold, get a new hose
> and
> clamps and reassemble again with the hope that the leak would no longer
> exist.  Not happening.
>
>
>
> I don't even know if I can get in there and destroy it with something, but
> I'm worried about messing with it too much because of the connection stem.
> Anyone got any BTDT's with that @#$%^& clamp in that semi-tight space?
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Steve
>
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