On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Scott Daniel - Turbovans <
scottdaniel@turbovans.com> wrote:

> the lesson of course is to check fuel hose clamps once in a while for
> tightness.
>
>
Although it would be ideal for us all to spend as much time checking on and
working on and looking at and lubing up our vans as you do (going by your
own reports which I have no reason to doubt--and which describe a standard I
would like to achieve myself one day)...

> personally, I do not like the crimp type clamps.
> I want everything to be real easy to work on ....and 'work-on-able' ..
> for troubleshooting ..
> I want to be able to undo fuel hoses, check whatnot, but it back together
> etc. without have a 'one-time' hose clamp that has to be cut off, then
> tossed in land fill or metal recycling.
>

...consider that most of us don't, and most van owners won't.  It would take
a LOT of hose clamps in a landfill to match the waste of one van burning by
the road.

Just as a matter of practicality, my admittedly very uneducated guess is
that the less-experienced would probably be well advised to consider the
other kind.

mike