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- From: rakoczynskij@gtephx.UUCP (Jurek Rakoczynski)
- Subject: hoses & silicone grease
- Message-ID: <1992Sep2.211654.11206@gtephx.UUCP>
- Organization: AG Communication Systems, Phoenix, Arizona
- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 21:16:54 GMT
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- I'd like to know if anyone else has experience with using silicone
- grease or spray on radiator and heater hose. You use it on the inside
- on the part of the hose that is in contact with a flange/neck so that
- it comes off easier years later.
-
- I read about this tip over 10 years ago and have always been doing it
- since then. However, ~50% of the time, I have to retighten more than
- once after 1-2 days to stop a small leak between the hose and flange.
- I don't seem to remember having to retighten the screw clamps more
- than once that often. But than, I don't over tighten things now a
- days like I use to. On smooth surfaces, such as radiators or heater
- cores, silicone spray is fine, but on rough castings like a Chevy
- water pump or thermostat housing, silicone grease seems to do a better
- job in helping remove the hose years later. You don't need much, just
- a very light coating, and I have never had to take a razor to cut a
- hose off, except one heater hose that had hardened. It broke loose
- fairly easily from the heater core nipple and I could rotate it, but
- it was so hard, it wouldn't flex enough to let it slide over the lip,
- and I didn't want to take a chance damaging the heat core.
-
- Anyone else have any experience?
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- Jurek Rakoczynski, AG Communication Systems, POB 52179, Phoenix, AZ. 85072
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