Good advice. I've got one of these on the Vanagon, and I now use SS
braided lines from Earl's Performance Products. This is after the
original no-brand steel braided rubber hoses got brittle and blew after
about 40,000 miles, leaving me stranded. It's hard to tell the
condition of these things under the braid.
Earl's are high performance, high temp lines, and thinner than rubber
braided lines so are easier to route. Check them out at
http://earlsperformance.com (very expensive, about $8 a foot). I used
the 7/16" line with standard barbed fittings and clamps. Use Earl's
fittings if looks are important, they are beautiful. This hose is worth
the price, IMHO.
Also, be careful not to over tighten the fittings in the bypass adapter,
they can crack. Use teflon tape and be firm but gentle!.
Larry wrote:
>
> I wanted to pass on a warning about the remote filter kits you can buy for
> almost any vehicle. I am passing this on since I know it is a common thing to
> use in both stock and V8 MGB's as I am doing a conversion myself.. These kits
> are manufactured by a variety of vendors, and I will not name the Mfg. of my
> kit as this really needs to be a widespread warning. I was very lucky that I
> followed a gut instinct and checked my oil the other day on my wife's camry
> before driving it. The car leaks oil (yes even a Toyota does it) so I had
> reason to do it, but what I found scared me. I installed a remote filter kit
> about 2500miles ago in an effort to lessen the oil draining all over the block
> during changes.... When reaching for the dipstick to check the oil, something
> caught my eye and I looked closer to find a large split in the outer housing
> of the outbound remote filter line. This was in a open section of the hose
> with no bends and no parts anywhere near it. The hose simply failed.
> Thankfully the inner housing was intake so no oil was lost, but who knows when
> that could have happened. I am now faced with a full day project of
> unmounting the entire set-up to get the old hoses out and replacing them with
> braided lines.
>
> Be VERY careful and suspect of the hoses included in the kits. More often
> than not they are NOT the best quality hose, otherwise the kits would be even
> more expensive. On top of that they are packaged up on plastic shrink wrap
> and probably sit in warehouses and on shelves for extended periods. These
> contribute to weakened hoses. I noticed this hose did not feel like other
> hoses I had worked with, but thought nothing of it. I now know better.. I
> will probably buy the adapter and remote base separately and spend the extra
> $$ on buying good hoses locally.
>
> Just a warning, I know I would hate to have a sudden drop in pressure and be
> on the side of the road with no oil in the motor and nothing possible other
> than a tow, or worse have an engine blow due to sudden oil loss at high RPM..
>
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Stuart MacMillan
Seattle
'84 Vanagon Westfalia w/2.1
'65 MGB (Daily driver since 1969)
'74 MGB GT (Restoring sloooowly)
Personal mechanic for:
'70 MGB GT (Daughter's)
Assisting on Restoration (and spending OPM):
'72 MGB GT (Was daughter's, now son's)
'64 MGB (Son's)
Stripped and gone but their parts live on:
'68 MGB, '73 MGB, '67 MGB GT
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