Reply With QuoteDo without the heater for the moment. A couple of spark plugs, jam them into the heater hoses and clamp them up. Or just loop the heater hose back to the engine.
Master
My series 3 has popped the little 90 degree section of hose that connects the heater tap to the heater core. Just split with age. I have a spare at home but I'm at work. I could smell the coolant this morning and noticed the gauge creeping up a little higher so checked it when I got to work and could hear the hiss.
I can't really get a piece of hose to go on there (unless garden hose will work but I don't think it will handle the pressure) so any tips to get enough of a seal to get me home (45km through peak traffic)?
Duct tape? Any other ideas? Help please?
AT REST
Do without the heater for the moment. A couple of spark plugs, jam them into the heater hoses and clamp them up. Or just loop the heater hose back to the engine.
Swaggie
Have you got an appropriate sized piece of dowel or metal bar to slip inside the hose and clamp it on the outside with a Jubilee clip or similar?
URSUSMAJOR
Master
Duct tape covered by jubilee clamps could work.
Moderator
Even without a clamp it works OK.Originally Posted by jakeslouw
The best stuff to use is silicon tape that sort of fuses to itself.
I always have a roll in the car, mainly for electrically connections that need to be waterproof, but also for a pinhole in a hose.
I actually did what Bee utey suggested six weeks ago when the header on my heater burst and just looped one of the pipes back on itself on my Tdi.
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