Can't comment on the expansion tank, but a good friend welded up a manifold
for the octopus tube you described. Beat the heck out of replacing the
original... This is the way I'll go when I do my I4 conversion.

John
90 Carat
82 Diesel

> For the hoses, (dreaded octopus breaking in the middle of nowhere...)
> maybe it's trickier to find direct replacements. At a show I saw one
> guy who had made a "manifold" replacing the "octopus" part where
> the various hoses join. With this he could use pieces of standard
> hose to connect to to the engine. Repairs become easy.