Turbo guys put a raised lip on their aluminum intercooler pipes with a
fabricated vise grip tool.
I lifted this quote from a webpage:

"Get a pair of cheap vise grips and take a file to the jaws. Leave a bump on
one side and create a trough on the other jaw. You have to work it around
the pipe and keep tightening it up. The results ain't pretty, but you do get
a bead and it is under the hose and works (just not on heavy wall pipe). You
actually do not need a bead all the way around, just enough on two sides so
the clamp cannot back over it."

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
Alan Felder
Sent: Sunday, November 08, 2009 10:41 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: You can blame Me - was: steel coolant pipes 82 diesel Westy

 On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 6:45 PM, mark drillock <mdrillock@cox.net> wrote:
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> I bet the metal is thick enough that a bead could be welded around the
> ends to be spliced. Likely not too many clams to do so.
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I will probably attempt to braze a wire ring around the rear pipes since
they will be out, and jbweld a similar ring on my installed pipes. All will
have to be re-cut to align hoses so they won't interfere, as in Craig's
previous post.

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> Alan Felder
> Austin TX
> 82 Diesel Westy
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