Just don't use plastic or PVC. They do have a great selection of brass
including hose barbs. Copper tube with the end crimped and soldered also
makes great hose plugs.

Dennis

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
Karl Wolz
Sent: Monday, May 30, 2011 2:14 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Hose clamps

Go to Home Depot and look at their selection of male plugs in the
plumbing/irrigation department.  Bring along your old hose to check fit.

Sent from my electronic umbilicus

Karl Wolz

On May 30, 2011, at 10:27 AM, David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET> wrote:

> At 09:57 PM 5/29/2011, Rocket J Squirrel wrote:
>> Found I needed to wrap the bolts with a buttload of TFE tape to
>> create a decent seal. Jury-rigged, would like better solution to
>> plugging unused coolant hoses that formerly went to auto trans ATF
cooler.
>
> Try a piece of hardwood dowel.  Put two or three small pan-head screws
> around the perimeter so it can't crawl back out past the clamp
> - this fitting needs an internal lip just as much as any of the other
> hose fittings in the system.
>
> If it's the right size, copper plumbing with the end capped or crimped
> and soldered, and a wire soldered around the inner end for a lip.
>
> If you know someone with a lathe, turn a piece of Corian or whatever.
>
> Get a properly sized bolt long enough to have a smooth section.  Cut
> off the threaded part and solder a wire around the end for a lip (the
> steel will have to be very very clean, freshly sanded and tinned
beforehand).
>
> Yrs,
> d
>