Hmmmm...a little before Friday, but....
I think I saw some of those "nipple pliers" down at the sex shop last week!

right next to the "hose clamps"!!   Hardee-har-har...
-t

"G. Matthew Bulley" wrote:

> There is a special set of pliers with little 'nipples' that fit the
> orifice on those snap rings. The pliers come in two or three sizes.
>
> Swipe a couple of pairs next time you're at the dealer, or ask your
> 'Snap-on/Cornwell/Mac" tool guy. Owning a pair or two will make hose
> replacement a pastime to enjoy, rather than a bothersome nuisance.
>
> Developing business and guiding change since 1996,
>
> G. Matthew Bulley
> Bulley-Hewlett
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM] On Behalf
> Of Dennis Haynes
> Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 8:31 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: hoses in general
>
> The spring clamps are used fro two reasons. One ,they are faster to
> install when nothing is in the way. Two, they can expand and contract
> with temperature changes maintaining a better seal long term with out
> damaging the hoses. This is particularly important with hoses that are
> connected to plastic parts.
>
> Dennis
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf
> Of patrice b
> Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 8:05 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: hoses in general
>
> That link to the Depot's page of coolant hoses and its package deal of
> all
> hoses made me wonder.  I have an 85 1.9L  manual trans, and a few of the
> big hoses are getting a little soft...when I was having a local (non
> Vanagon expert) mechanic help me with the coolant flush this spring I
> asked
> what he thought about the hoses.  He said that next spring if I was
> going
> to flush again (there was green stuff i there from PO...it's blue-ish
> now,
> but the flush was not able to get out every lil bit of green stuff, so I
> thought I'd repeat in a year) that it would be a good time to re-do some
> of
> the hoses.
>
> Question:  if a person were to just change out all the hoses (since they
> will be old enough to vote by spring)
> -- is there anything else one would want to do at that time?
> -- Are some of these hoses a gigantic pain in the pitooty to get to?
> -- what about the metal pipes?
> -- and is it a good/bad/neutral idea to get rid of the spring clamps on
> those big hoses and go with screw-on clamp rings?
>             (mechanic was cursing at those when he put in the new
> bleeder
> valve at that time)
>
> Thank you in advance for your thoughts
>
> --Patrice
> 85GL "VanaBlue"

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