--- Laurence Smith <laurence@alanasmith.com> wrote:
> Last month on my 1990 I changed the water pump, the
> 2 small hoses to
> the oil cooler as well as the 2 small oil cooler
> metal tubes.  I never
> had to go near the exhaust in any way and I did not
> need to remove the
> oil cooler, A/C compressor or distributor.

But you removed the water pump and probably moved
aside the big black coolant pipe connected to it.
I want to change just the oil cooler hoses (those two
small 90 degrees hoses, the one going to the
thermostat actually has a 1/2" slit in it) without
removing anything else, as I've done before with other
(more accessible) hose.
Another option is to bandage it with some RTV ("room
temperature vulcanizing") silicon with external
fiberglass bandage for reenforcement (BTDT. Works
nicely). The problem is the limited access here.

> I lost about 2 gallons of
> coolant which I returned back to the system at the
> end of the job.  I

Don't mind topping up the coolant.

> think your dealer does not know what they are doing.

Yes he does. Making more money...

Anyway, do you think I can "strangle" a new hose in
(after I clip the old one and it's clip) without
removing anything?

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Cheers, T-man.

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