Aron;
I've found that rubber parts (hoses, fan belts, winshield wipers, etc) made
in the Far East are pretty bad. Belts stretch, hoses leak, and wiper blades
fall apart. European stuff is better but the best quality rubber products
are good ol' "Made in USA". Goodyear "High Miler" hoses are very good.
Regards, Neil Tucson, AZ
-----Original Message-----
From: atrav [mailto:atravis@spacey.net]
Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2003 11:35 PM
To: LSR list
Subject: Hoses
One of my projects is having a few problems. First, the underhood heat is
high enough to really dry out my hoses, I've been having vacuum leak
problems so have been replacing EVERYTHING that could cause that. Some of my
vacuum hoses are less than two years old, yet today when I removed them they
were so brittle that they just broke off. So, where is a good online source
for some high temperature hose, preferably to as large as 3/4"?
And, are there any good online sources for metric hose? I need some 12mm and
45mm. 1/2" is proving just too big for the 12mm barbs.
While I'm at it, I need to change the hoses on my oil cooler. I have the
choice of getting new hose crimped on the old fittings (maybe), getting
metric fittings that have barbs- then just using hose and clamps, or using
metric to -AN fittings- then using -AN hose, any opinion as to which I
should use?
-Aron-
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