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Subject:Re: Coolant hose substitutes
From:mike
Date:Tue, 9 Apr 2002 13:45:40 -0700

One for the earlier models too, please.

> From: Malcolm Stebbins <Malcolm.Stebbins@MSVU.CA>
> Reply-To: Malcolm Stebbins <Malcolm.Stebbins@MSVU.CA>
> Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 16:50:29 -0300
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: Coolant hose substitutes
>
> There use to be a site that had these conversions, but now it is
> behind a LOGIN and PW page.  WHO put this page up and can we
> please have it outside a password protected site???  I'd be glad to
> put it up if someone can send it to me.
>
> VW to Napa Hose Conversion for '86-91 Vanagons
>
> http://scribers.midwest.net/midwesty/vw/Vanagon/VWtoNapaHoses/
>
> On 9 Apr 2002 at 7:41, Bob Whitby wrote:
>
>> Greetings all:
>> I am in the process of getting my newly acquired 87 Westy ready for a
>> long trip, and have decided to take the plunge on replacing hoses
>> (thanks to listees who responded to that question). My next question
>> is: I read a post in the archives about a guy who took off his hoses
>> then walked the aisles at his FLAPS (because there was no application
>> listed in the catalog for Vanagons) and came away with some find
>> substitutes for the original, and ridiculously expensive, coolant
>> hoses. I believe that gentlemen was driving a Syncro. This post was
>> dated, if I rememer correctly, 1996. Anyone try this recently? Anyone
>> have words of encouragement/discouragement to offer? Thanks Bob W
>