[DMCForum] Re: Repair holes in cooling pipe?

["content22207" <brobertson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Just replace them with lengths of rubber hose. I've simplified my
plumbing to the 2 pipe sections in the engine compartment (needed for
the otterstate bung and expansion bottle junction), and 4 next to the
frame/under the gas tank (which I hope some day to replace with just 2
custom bent ones). Everything else is rubber. My radiator bleed goes
to a Tee in the heater core return line.

Gnarly pipe ends can simply be cut off and the hose run a little bit
longer to the virgin metal.

Bill Robertson
#5939

>--- In DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Matt Spittle" <mds328@xxxx> wrote:
> I pulled out some of the radiator coolant piping today.  I removed all
> of the aluminum tubing from the water pump to about where the fuel
> accumulator is.  Some of the tubing is actually pitted in some areas
> to the point where there's pinholes in it!  These areas were mainly at
> the sections where the rubber joining hose ended.  That is:
> 
> ==aluminum=====|\\rubber\\|=====aluminum===
> 
> Right where the |'s are, is where the pitting was the worst.
> Is there any way to repair this?  I looked and saw the price of those
> tubes is at least $30 each.  Some cost more.  
> 
> thanks,
> 
> Matt
> #1604

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