That's a useful POV Stacy.

>...... as well as the Plastic union near #1 cylinder with a SS unit .

Shown lower LH on P. 19.14 in Bentley? I've done some work on this 2.1
but am not really familiar with it ..... yet.    ;)

A heater hose replacement kit will be on order. It contains metal tees.

Since I'm doing the work, I'd rather eliminate potential fail points
now but it's a real "toss up" in deciding on things like buying an
entire coolant hose kit or just replace as those as needed.

On 5/20/14, Stacy Schneider <vwcrewman@gmail.com> wrote:
>      When I built my Mutivan  last year I was able to get a beautiful set
> of near NOS coolant pipes from GW ,Looked as good as new with no rust on
> the insert and uncracked tube ends. As nice a set as you will find I
> thought .
>      A year later I pulled the engine for  a conversion and found that one
> of the ends was walking its way out ,about a 1/3 out when i saw it .
>      So I did what I couldn't have afforded when I first built the van and
> bought SS tubes as well as replaced the plastic heater tees and front
> coupler  at the heater valve which nice barbed brass fittings as well as
> the Plastic union near #1 cylinder with a SS unit . The only plastic I have
> in the system now is a stepped coupler at the coolant bottle because of the
> Subaru conversion. I will change that out as well with brass.
>      In my Syncro Tristar the only plastic coupler is the thermostat
> housing cover. I have had those plastic fitting in  my Passat fail on a
> road trip one time. We were able to limp it to dealership and fix it ,but
> things like that can ruin a vacation for sure .
>
>
>                                                   Stacy

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