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replacing water pipes
Hi all just getting the van back together bought some plastic water pipes to go in got tank out water pipes in any idea's on conecting the too ovs rubber pipe but any idea cheers bri
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You need to fix that comma tab on your keyboard.
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Cecil wrote:Ovs ?
Maybe yoof speak for 'obviously' ... something I appear to have gleaned from our beloved daughter's delinquent and illiterate friends.
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I have to admit i am struggling to understand the question..
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R0B wrote:I have to admit i am struggling to understand the question..
At a guess I would say our friend has replaced his early system metal front to back pipes with a pair of late system formerly appreciated plastic ones and now can't work out why they don't meet his early plumbing.
But I'll stand correcting
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Ahhh.Thanks for the translation..
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Ian Hulley wrote: At a guess I would say our friend has replaced his early system metal front to back pipes with a pair of late system formerly appreciated plastic ones and now can't work out why they don't meet his early plumbing.
Interesting. Jumping in on the OP's thread, but hopefully to the benefit of us both. I have the early cooling system in my van, but it has white plastic pipes fitted underneath - has had since I bought it so I didn't know any better. I didn't think anything of it until I recently had to disconnect them from the main hoses in the engine bay. They were REALLY tight on the white pipes, making them tricky to remove and extremely difficult to get back on. Am I to understand that the white pipes have a bigger diameter than the metal pipes my van would have had originally? Is this why Ian suggested they'd need to be changed if someone was converting from the early cooling system to the later setup?
I did manage to get the hoses back over the white pipes in the end, but it took a lot of hot water, lubrication, and brute force to do so. The hoses don't seem to have suffered from being stretched like this, and they've been on for several years at least (since I purchased the van in 2013).
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Early pipes are 32mm, late ones 38mm.
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That explains it - thank you.
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