roughyear

took the car in for an oil change. the indy tech noticed some steam coming out of the little **** on the top radiator hose (i guess next to that T crossing) and all the coolant shot out of the hose.. the hose is broken i guess.

my question is that hose one BIG hose or can that T-junction be replaced?? if the whole thing needs replacing how involved is it... the tech is saying about 1.5hrs.

jazbo123

Mine was leaking in that same place so I drilled out the old "nipple" and epoxied in a machined (and threaded) replacement. It lasted about 8 months and slowly leaked around the epoxy. I got tired of the leak.

Last week I bought a new hose at the dealer. They showed me the financials on it:

Cost: 68.00 (US)
Trade price: 90.00
List: 130.00

I paid 110.00, and I'm installing it this weekend :-)

ex-a8drifter

never know when its going to bust. I had to replace it via emergency and take a day off work to do it. Better to just go buy a new one and get it taken care of.

skiracer

trying to "fix" the old one will only bring trouble. 1.5 hours seems a little high for labor, my guess would be 1 hour for the whole job.