[DeTomaso] Flex Water Tube to water pump

[Julian Kift]

The neatest installation I saw was where someone had welded stainless fittings on the coolant tubes and used screw thread braided coolant hoses. this would dictate a change to 1 & 1/2" coolant tubes to get common size braided hose fittings and the $$ would add up real fast as the fitting ain't cheap, but it sure looked neat in the photo's I saw. I cannot recall where I came acorrss the photo's now though....

 

On a much cheaper basis I used steel hose braiding and wrapped my Green Stripe hose for some additional protection, I also double clamped them using the stainless 'extended tail' hose clamps which have the tail that prevents the worm part cutting into the hose.

 

Julian
 
> Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 08:29:59 -0800
> From: teampantera at yahoo.com
> To: jderyke at aol.com; detomaso at realbig.com
> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Flex Water Tube to water pump
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> Thanks Jack to everyone else who responded...going back to Gates Greenstripe hose connections. 
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> From: "jderyke at aol.com" <jderyke at aol.com>
> To: teampantera at yahoo.com; detomaso at realbig.com
> Sent: Mon, January 11, 2010 11:25:51 PM
> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Flex Water Tube to water pump
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> In a message dated 1/10/10 4:06:04 PM, teampantera at yahoo.com writes:
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> Has anyone used *flex-hose* to replace the short water tube that comes off water pump that requires rubber hose on both ends? ?
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> >>Its 2" on one end and 1&1/2" on the other. Both ends need short pieces of Gates rubber hose and clamps but I would like to use a *better* idea if one exists.
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> Flex hose usually slows down water or air flow going through it. In '74, the factory introduced a twisty steel tube that fits around the gearshift shaft and is 2" on one end & 1-1/2" on the other. So yes- you need two short pieces of straight hose to connect it. The factory did this change from a single hose with two different diameter ends because they found very early in production that running vibration will cause the gearshift shaft to rub clear through the hose. There's a TSB (Bull. 12, article 101) covering this part -stock after May '74, and all the vendors sell copies of the factory piece- most in stainless as part of their kit. I wouldn't use a one piece rubber hose, corrugated or not here because of the rubbing problem and lack of space to reroute it. Good luck- J DeRyke
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