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

[Gwendolyn Ann Smith <gwen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>, you said...

>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.

::nod:: Ya, it sounds like it's only reason for existence in this fashion 
is to keep the hose from collapsing within the robber grommet -- and this 
is something less likely to happen at this stage of the game, IMO.

>YOu could trivially simulate it with a simple piece of white
>holey plastic tubing. It wouldn't be correct, but it would allow
>correct retrofit later, and would certainly look more correct than
>the hose through the hole.
>
>I think hardware store white nylon tubing, a 3" section of it,
>would do.

::nod: I found a white nylon tube joiner thingy (that's the scientific 
term, you know) at OSH yesterday, and I'll tinker with this in the coming 
week.  Thanks for the information!

Cheers,
Gwen Smith

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