If you use hose and hose clamps for your cooling plumbing  you
should take a look at this. This silicone rubber hose is about
a dollar a foot at McMaster Carr but it is about the best you can
buy. I also bought some Breeze constant torque heavy duty hose
clamps. This silicone hose is quite soft so a SS liner is needed in

the hose

clamp to prevent the hose from extruding through the worm gear slots.
The constant torque feature means the clamp can expand and contract
slightly as the aluminum hose barb expands and contracts when
it warms up and cools down. The washers are actually Belleville

springs

back to back. The Breeze part number is CT-200L.
McMaster Carr part #5281K-17.  I bought a box of ten for about $34.

Well worth it. Not as good as AN but then again it will flow more
coolant with less pressure drop. 1-1/2" or AN -24 is hard to find
and real stiff. AN-20 is only 1-1/4" ID probably adequate but still
stiff. AN -20 also requires a lot of tig welding aluminum.

It does not pay to nickel and dime the coolant plumbing. A coolant

system

failure can bring you down just as fast as a broken crankshaft
if we had crankshafts which we don't. So we don't need to worry about

that :)

Paul Lamar

Good info Paul. That was my plan too. P-51  had the same setup with

aluminum

tubing and short hose sections triple clamped. Double clamped and safety
wired clamps together will do for us, I hope.
Bulent

Harrison Young wrote:

Bulent,

What do you mean by "triple clamped" (referring to the P51)? Did they
actually use three separate clamps at each hose junction?

Harrison Young

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