JFerg65
03-22-2009, 17:19
OK,
Had my second official break down on the freeway today... I had been having a slow drip, nothing to write home about or barely see or smell. I tracked it down to one of the ends of teh T fitting where the heater hose goes toward the core. Anyhow, the thing apparently had cracked on the inside under the original clamp. After the white smoke screen drill, I got pulled over and yep, the plastic had gone south. I pulled the broken pieces all out of the inside and got the hose back over the T fitting with a replacement hose clp to cinchh er don. I'm good to go for now, but want to replace both of them, and while I'm at it will most like find my self replacing some hoses.
Here is the question, has anybody found a replacement T that was not plastic? I would love to find a beefy brass, bronze or stainless T that would do the job.
As an aside it does make you feel pretty good about a situation when you can save your own ass on the side of the road!
Had my second official break down on the freeway today... I had been having a slow drip, nothing to write home about or barely see or smell. I tracked it down to one of the ends of teh T fitting where the heater hose goes toward the core. Anyhow, the thing apparently had cracked on the inside under the original clamp. After the white smoke screen drill, I got pulled over and yep, the plastic had gone south. I pulled the broken pieces all out of the inside and got the hose back over the T fitting with a replacement hose clp to cinchh er don. I'm good to go for now, but want to replace both of them, and while I'm at it will most like find my self replacing some hoses.
Here is the question, has anybody found a replacement T that was not plastic? I would love to find a beefy brass, bronze or stainless T that would do the job.
As an aside it does make you feel pretty good about a situation when you can save your own ass on the side of the road!