[V8] upper radiator hose

[Kneale Brownson]

Group buy?

What does "back from the passenger side head connection" mean.  Back toward
the radiator, back toward the head?  I'm thinking I'd like to figure out a
way to splice it back together with clamps and some copper plumbing if it
burst on the road.

At 02:40 PM 7/27/2004 -0400, Dave Head wrote:
>I'll shortly be ordering 'another' hose from Bruce.
>1st one - Son's 80K 91 V8q - babied and garaged all its life
>2nd one - 92 V8q, 190+K miles
>3rd one - 90 V8q, tornado red - owned since 75K
>
>All failed at exactly the same place - 1.5" back from the passenger side 
>head connection, cracked internally, then burst.
>
>I highly recommend you consider replacement, so you don't blow one on 
>the turnpike and have to limp it 12 miles at 115C to the nearest gas 
>station...
>
>Dave
>
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