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

[Gwendolyn Ann Smith <gwen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Frank (farna@xxxxxxx), you said...

>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! 

That's the thing that makes it seem so silly.  It is simply a splice, 
with nothing really to hold it in place except whatever pressure is 
applied by the rubber grommet through the firewall.

>There's not enough pressure on the hose in the big wiring harness grommet 
>to colapse the hose, not if you can push the hose through. Just soap or 
>silicone (NOT WD-40! it contains silicone... and paint thinner, as well as 
>other ingredients not exactly kind to rubber) the hose and push it through! 

There is enough of a gap there today (after a couple decades of this car 
living in the California and Mevada deserts) that while it still holds 
the hose pretty well, it doesn't reeally need much in the way of soap to 
force it through. :-)

Cheers,
Gwen Smith

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