[s-cars] hose clamp

[Fred Munro]

Bob;

Great advice from Tom! I used the Breeze CT clamps on my Samcos - they apply
a constant clamping force on the hose as temperature changes, making it less
likely that the hose will blow off. Good clamps!

Fred Munro
'97 S6

-----Original Message-----
From: s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com
[mailto:s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com] On Behalf Of Tom Green
Sent: August 3, 2011 3:39 PM
To: s-car list; Robert Myers
Subject: Re: [s-cars] hose clamp

Man, you sure are helpless when left alone.  You better get together  
with some like-minded folks
at //SFest to help you out.  You sure are getting some crummy advice  
on this list.

For a replacement hose clamp, drop on down to NAPA and ask for their  
Breeze CT clamps.  You
need the CT350 clamps for the big end but you can probably get the  
CT300 on the small end to
save a buck.  Sorry, I don't have the NAPA part # handy, but you can  
take it from here.

Then throw away that T-bolt junk.  Make sure to inspect the hose bib  
to make sure you didn't
damage it by tightening the T-bolt too much.

Tom

On Wednesday August 3, 2011, at 2:13 PM, Robert Myers <bob at chips-ur-s.com 
 > wrote

> Climbing onto the boost this morning the car went "BANG!!!" and power
> disappeared.  Yup, blew off a hose.  :-(
>
> I spent the next half hour jacking up the front of the urS6 so I
> could get under it at the side of the road (well, actually I managed
> to limp into a bank parking lot) and pulling the belly pan.
>
> Yup - sure enough, the turbo ---> crossover hose was off the
> crossover pipe.  Simple repair except for one small problem - there
> was no way to loosen the clamp so I could put it back on over the
> Samco hose/crossover junction.  I did, however, manage to screw up
> the old T clamp enough to make it unusable even if I could have
> opened it up.  I need a replacement T clamp.
>
> IIRC, I got the one I just screwed up from ECSTuning but I don't find
> a suitable replacement part in their on-line catalog.
>
> So - where do I find a good replacement hose clamp these days?
>
> Bob
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