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Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Denton, Texas
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Shade tree mechanics at their best. Your opinion please!
I've got a little problem I could use some experienced opinions on.
My girlfriends truck, Chevy, the heater hose pipe fitting broke off at the intake. The threads are still in the intake manifold. I know I should just take the intake manifold off and take it to a machine shop to have the thing fixed. However, I am just too broke at the moment and just wanting to try a down and dirty approach. My first idea is to simply "sleeve" the broken fitting with some 1/2" OD copper tubing. I would either use J.B. Weld or another gasket maker than is waterproof (i.e. liquid resistance to antifreeze.) My second idea is that if I am going to "sleeve" using the copper tubing, why not just extend it and connect it with a heater hose from the copper tubing to the heater core inlet. Last edited by lil hoodlum; 12-22-2011 at 08:43 PM. Reason: wrong word |
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