Glad to hear you say that JFF.
I was going to and thought why bother.
But PVC is not indestructible at all.
Plastic deteriorates with age and heat.

The advantages of plastic :
Cheap to make millions of any item.
Light weight,
Can't rust,

Disadvantages :
Deteriorates with age and heat, just look at the plastic 2.1 waterboxer
cooling system parts that fail.

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
Joe Federici
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 4:24 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Stainless Steel coolant lines

What if you painted them with clear por-15. UV shouldn't be a issue
under the van. Even powder coating these days isn't to expensive. PVC
to me doesn't sound like a good idea.

JFF

On Feb 12, 2008, at 5:30 PM, Doug Alcock wrote:

Keep in mind that stainless steel lines rust --- takes a long time
but it
does happen. I found this out 2,000 km from home and it was
inconvenient to
say the least. The fix for me was flexible hydraulic hoses that
replace the
rusted out part of the stainless hoses (the bendy part that goes from
the
engine to underneath). So I still have stainless underneath the belly
pan. I
recently had the gas tank changed and before he dropped the tank my
mechanic
suggested that if there was any doubt about the remaining staninless
steel
coolant lines that he would replace them with PVC plumbing pipe from
Home
Depot --- something he apparently does routinely. My lines were OK --
but
PVC is something to think about --- cheap and it isn't ever going to
rust.

Cheers,
Doug

On 2/12/08, Joe Federici <joefederici@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> Just wondering if any of the list members with Subaru conversion have
> used either the volks cafe or Bus Depot stainless steel coolant
> lines. I don't see any issues but thought I'd ask before buying. The
> two venders seem to be selling the same thing. Volks cafe includes
> the hose clamps but charges a bit more.
>
> thanks in advance
>
> JFF
>

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