Chaps,
Just doing a bit of ***-ivation
on my 280zx and thought I'd pass on this info:
a) Due to old age of the hoses, I have replaced the 2 that go to the heater matrix ( through the bulkhead ), these are pretty expensive for genuine replacement items but I have a friend who works for a car cooling system hose manufacturer, he owed me a favour and spent his time looking for 2 more generally available cooling hoses that match the bends. The good news is that he found some, 1 is almost a perfect copy of the input hose and the other replicates the 'S' shape of the output hose ( it requires a couple of straight pieces of hose at either end to make it the right length - which is an easy job )
He can get the 2 hoses for about £20, which is about a third of the price of replacements and is hard to tell any difference when installed.
b) The little T-shaped brass (?) valve in the heater matrix output pipe ( along side the engine block near the dipstick ) had a minor weep from the bottom. I've managed to repair this with a new o-ring ( you just have to carefully bend back the little tabs on the bottom and extract the plastic insert where the o-ring lives )
Cheers
Ash
Just doing a bit of ***-ivation
on my 280zx and thought I'd pass on this info:a) Due to old age of the hoses, I have replaced the 2 that go to the heater matrix ( through the bulkhead ), these are pretty expensive for genuine replacement items but I have a friend who works for a car cooling system hose manufacturer, he owed me a favour and spent his time looking for 2 more generally available cooling hoses that match the bends. The good news is that he found some, 1 is almost a perfect copy of the input hose and the other replicates the 'S' shape of the output hose ( it requires a couple of straight pieces of hose at either end to make it the right length - which is an easy job )
He can get the 2 hoses for about £20, which is about a third of the price of replacements and is hard to tell any difference when installed.
b) The little T-shaped brass (?) valve in the heater matrix output pipe ( along side the engine block near the dipstick ) had a minor weep from the bottom. I've managed to repair this with a new o-ring ( you just have to carefully bend back the little tabs on the bottom and extract the plastic insert where the o-ring lives )
Cheers
Ash