[V8] upper radiator hose

[dsaad at icehouse.net]

Steve - I made the two (expensive) heater hoses out of copper and to do the
"swedge" (sp?), I just cut a thin strip of copper, wrapped it around the end of
the pipe and soldered it down. Then sand/file off any sharp edges and you are
done. Seemed to work OK but I decided to just get the real parts.
I have also considered what you are planning for the top rad hose - but where
will you come up with the required hose connection from rad to pipe, and pipe to
head? If you have to buy two or three new hoses to cut up + the copper parts +
the time and beer to get it all done, you will be pretty close to the cost of
the real thing. Your homemade job may well be more robust though.

Dave




Quoting "Buchholz, Steven" <Steven.Buchholz at kla-tencor.com>:

> ... should be pretty easily done ... I wonder how big a deal it is to reduce
> the diameter of the fitting that goes to the left side head ... I'll
> probably do it anyway.  I'm a bit torn as to how I will deal with the outlet
> diameter changes, first I thought to use the outlet sizes to set the "T"
> size and see if I could enlarge the inlet somehow ... but then it is
> probably easier to just get a larger "T" and insert smaller diameter
> fittings into the outlets to do the flow restriction.  Has anyone seen a
> method for swaging the fittings in a way that will hold the hose in place?
>
> Tony, did you want me to take pictures or make any measurements on the
> factory part for you?  The part I dissected is readily available in the
> garage ...
>
> Steve B
> San Jose, CA (USA)
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> >
> > I'm going to make some sort of hose from copper tubing and
> > regular hoses.
> > This is for the 4000/V8 as tth car was $700, the engine $250,
> > and I'm not
> > paying $160 for a stupid hose for the thing.
> >
> > Tony Hoffman
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > ... I hear you Dave ... I had an almost brand new unit fail
> > in that same
> > location on #344.  I thought that perhaps I had brought on
> > the failure when
> > I muscled the hose around for some reason ... serp belt job perhaps?
> >
> > I still had the unit that failed with a leak in the molded
> > section ... so I
> > decided to try to carefully disassemble.  What I found is
> > that under that
> > nicely molded material there is a plastic "T" section and the
> > hose sections
> > are held in place with crimped clamps.  What I was planning
> > to do when I had
> > the need was to fashion a new "T" section with the
> > appropriate ID's on all
> > the attachment points to allow individual hoses from a FLAPS
> > to be used.
> > Has anyone else done anything along these lines?  If someone
> > is looking to
> > do this I can take measurements and pictures of the molding
> > free hose ...
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