Re: Meanwhile, on the other Little Car project...

[farna@xxxxxxx]

Hmmm... so basically it's a splice in the hose. If it had a speed nut on one side holding the splice section to the firewall it would make a lot more sense! 

On February 11, 2005 Tom Jennings wrote:

> On Thu, 10 Feb 2005, Ken Ames wrote:
> 
> > The little section of hard 'hose' could be instead of a rubber one getting
> > crushed in the grommet.
> 
> No, it's a discrete section of drilled nylon bar. It's white,
> smaller than the black hose (which I thinkis somethig like 1/4"
> ID) and the two black hoses (underhood, underdash) push onto it.
> 
> THat's the weirdest thing about it. It's a total crock. You
> assemble by pushing the white nylon tube into one hose (say, under
> dash, from the checkvalve), push the nylon tube through the hole
> in the firewall -- no grommet! it doesn't seal at all! -- then
> push the hose from the foot bulb onto it. Of couse you have to
> hold it in place while you wrestle the hose on ... picture one arm
> fully under the dashboard, and the other fully into the engine
> compartment...  ahem.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> .


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