Re: quattro-digest V4 #85

["Anthony K.B. Chan" <chan@seattleu.edu>]

It's not going to last very long I noticed when the pipe on mine failed the 
remaining part became very brittle and degraded from the heat. In the 
long run you are better off replacing it. You really don't want to wait 
til it failed on a very hot summer day and cause over heating to the engine. 
When the one on mine failed it was like an explosion as I mentioned in my 
previous post and it lost almost every drop of coolant but it was a very 
cold winter night and I was just starting from a stoplight so I pulled 
off into a parking lot right next to the junction and turned the engine off.

Anthony Chan, First Hill, Seattle, WA, USA.
chan@seattleu.edu
92' 100 V6 Tornado Red.

On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, Paul Nicholson wrote:

> Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 22:44:25 -0700
> From: Paul Nicholson <paul@eisusa.com>
> To: quattro@coimbra.ans.net, cyclops@mindlink.bc.ca
> Subject: Re: quattro-digest V4 #85
> 
> 
> > inspection the next day revealed that the
> >upper rad hose fitting to the radiator, a crummy plastic thingie, had
> >broken. the broken end with the clamp retainer was still in the hose. so now
> >i'm left with a one inch stub with no raised portion to retain the clamped
> >hose. any body btdt? as a temporary fix i cut away the original clamped
> >section of the rad hose,about 1/2", used a new wider clamp and connected two
> >small steel wires under the clamp which i then wrapped around radiator parts
> >to help prevent the hose from being blown off as pressure builds. so far it
> >works , but am i stuck for a new rad because of a plastic nozzle? if the
> >darn thing were metel i'd just fabricate a part.
> 
> Maybe you could repair it with a wrap of fiberglass cloth and resin?
> 
> Paul
> 
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