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On 26 Jun 2003 at 20:55, Aaron Clow wrote: > --- Jim Adney <jadney@vwtype3.org> wrote: > > > You can tell original hose because it is attached at > > the ends with little crimp > > rings. If you have worm gear hose clamps, that hose > > has been replaced. The > > crimp rings have to be cut off to replace the hose. > > Looks like I had a LOT of 30-year-old hose on my car! That's scary! I bought a 73 in 1990. It had 30k miles on it and looked absolutely perfect. In looking over the engine I could see that the hoses had been replaced, so I left them as I found them. That winter, several trouble-free months later, driving home (400 miles) from my folks house on New Years Eve day, I realized that I was losing gas quickly and discovered that all the hose had been replaced except for the one hardest piece to get to, the #1 injector to the pressure regulator, on a car with EGR. That hose hides behind the EGR valve. The leak was spraying gas all over the engine, and was so big that I had no chance of getting far on any finite amount of gas. There were no gas stations or garages in the area that were interested in helping me at that time on that day. It was 4pm, minus 20 F and 20 mph wind. I found a hardware store that was still open, bought tools and hose and did it myself in their parking lot while my wife and daughter stood inside in the warmth. It took me nearly 2 hours in the cold and left me with fingers that were completely numb even though I ran inside about every 10 minutes. It was the closest to tears that I've ever been while in the middle of a car repair. -- ******************************* Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org Madison, Wisconsin, USA ******************************* ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org