Re: [AMC-list] [Amc-list] American radiator hose and poetic justice (Yep, 7266 is good!)

[Bruce Griffis <bruce.griffis@xxxxxxxxx>]

Gotta vouch for the 7266 radiator hose! I picked one up and it worked
just fine. A little dab of vaseline solved the 1.5" versus 1.75"
issue.

But mine is still leaking. Darn! I know it's the thermostat housing.
It's old, and I may not have filed it as flat as I thought. I think
Galvin's carries a replacement. Think I'll give a shout during the
week to see if he still has any.

But 7266 works like a charm.

On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 2:56 PM, tom jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Funny, this happening after Joe's post about his lucky find with the
> radiator hose. I'm driving on a very old radiator hose, it's actually
> leaking at the thermostat end (more likely the rusted housing adapter).
>
> BUT! I persisted at NAPA, and by simply walking through the aisles with an
> old rotten hose I found one that is exactly correct in all dimensions --
> except one. But it works. Did someone else mention this part, on this list,
> long ago?
>
> NAPA 7266 is perfect except that the thermostat housing end is 1 1/2" and
> the housing wants it to be 1 3/4" -- but it stretches easily and in a
> non-harmful way. Check out the photos here:
>
> http://wps.com/temp/Early-American-upper-radiator-hose-NAPA-7266/
>
> A "real" solution is to make a new thermostat neck to accept 1.5" hoses.
> It's not even a big deal, and most of them are rotted anyways. I have a
> spare rusty one; I may chop down the neck, insert 1.5" exhaust pipe, weld it
> in, and glpytal the thing so it won't rust. Someone should make these!
>
> (The early american thermostat is NOT the same as the universal style used
> in all later AMCs, Ford, GM, etc. It's larger in diameter.)
>
>
>
> The poetic justice part: It's an AMC Spirit hose, so in fact there really is
> a reason it fits; though every thing in the car changed from 1952 to 1979,
> it did so incrementally, and the relationship of the radiator to engine
> stayed the same. It's easy to see how:
>
> 50's nash: random radiator and themostat placement.
> 60's: new 232 engine; nash radiator style (top neck on left)
> 70's: new chassis, AMC used the same radiator design.
>
>
> --
> All your arguments are invalid.
> Enjoy your unstable system.
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