[DeTomaso] Gates Green Stripe Hose

[Richard Barkley]

Ken,
For the miles and time you are likely to put on your car I'm sure that 
any of the Gates Green Stripe hoses (or any premium hose for that 
matter) will probably outlive you and your car. In my car, after about 
100K miles, the only one of the origional hoses that ever gave me 
problems was the one that went to the swirl tank. It was pretty wimpy in 
the early ('71) cars (don't know about later ones) and failed, I'm sure, 
due to it's closeness to the headers. All the other hoses, when I pealed 
them off, looked like they could go another 100K miles.

As for the Evans coolant. I looked at it fairly seriously when I started 
out on ZONKEY's restoration. It sounded like the perfect coolant. 
However, a bit more "research" (this was back in the 2002 time frame) 
convinced me that the risk/benefit ratio was way too high. There may be 
a few applications where it makes sense but I don't think a Pantera is 
one of them.

Also, if you have some unique, or maybe just standard, curved hoses to 
do you might want to consider doing what I did (and many Rod's do) and 
replace them with stainless flex tubes with straight SS tubing brazed 
(or silver soldered) on to the ends. I thought I had some pictures 
online but I don't. Can supply on request!
Richard


> Subject:
> [DeTomaso] Gates Green Stripe Hose
> From:
> Ken Green <kenn_green at yahoo.com>
> Date:
> Fri, 24 Jun 2011 10:56:21 -0700 (PDT)
> To:
> detomaso at realbig.com
>
> I'm using 1.5 OD coolant tubes and found:
>
> Imperial 96556 "Gates" Green Stripe Radiator Stick 3' X 1.5"
>
> It's about $85 for 3 feet, is this the right stuff?
>
> Ken

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Sincerely, Richard Barkley

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