RE: Team Doorhandle on engine design?

["Buchholz, Steven" <Steven.Buchholz@kla-tencor.com>]

> I've commented on this before, but mine failed today so I had to fit
> one from MB001293.
> 
> Family picture AQS/88/1/45/20_00, item 26.  "Water pipe, return".
> 
> It's the pipe that brings water back to the engine from the turbo.
> It starts off aircraft-grade - banjo bolt with ground mating faces
> and crush washers, serious piece of crimping ...
> 
> And then 1" later it attaches via a hose clip!
> 
> Obviously someone dug it from a parts bin, chopped the end off, and it
> fitted.  Then it became a 'part' in its own right.
> 
> Question for the gurus - where was this bastardised part pinched from?
> 
... I don't know the answer to the question ... but IME it is the fancy
crimped connector which tends to leak in any case!  Rather than purchasing
another to replace it I got a shorth length of that high temperature hose
(sil-something) from a qlister and used _2_ old fashioned, cheesy hose
clamps ... 

I doubt I'll ever have to deal with it again ...

Steve Buchholz
San Jose, CA (USA)