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... When I changed my coolant hoses a couple of weeks ago my a/c accumulator
hose was rubbing on my coolant cross over pipe. It only rubbed the paint off the coolant pipe but the crimp on the a/c hose was cut into. Not enough to replace yet. Has anyone else had this problem? Just wanted to mention this so the pipe doesn't become a problem on the road or worse yet trying to find one like the dreaded thermo housing I needed a couple of years ago, thanks to Todd Cerami who had one and let me have it at a fair price. ( hope I spelled your name right Todd)...jim Oh yeah I almost forgot again ,I remembered this only because I was looking at 72 warbonnet's pics of his car and his a/c hose looks very close too. It could be just the way the pic was taken but could be worth a look anyway. |
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Mine looks like that too -- but seals fine. I'm not going to worry unless it leaks!
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I found that on my 90, and a couple of other places where I didn't like the closeness of two hoses also.
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Wow, I forgot all about this until I saw your post.
I too had this in the exact same place. I took the AC hose off and put a sleeve over it right at the metal crimp. I used some large heat-shrink tubing, the kind with sticky hot glue inside. When applied and heated it makes a real tight seal and does not move.
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insulating hoses and pipes this way. I use plastic tie straps to keep them in place where I want them. We have all different size hoses so a lot of my work involves cutting radiator size hose for insulating. We just got a new Kenworth truck so I'll spend a couple of days looking for anything rubbing on each other. |
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Oh man Thanks for the zip strap idea Jim! Don't know why I didn't think of that...I was going to use black duct tape!
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