Pics of my braided radiator hose.

Just finished installing my braided radiator hose. Cutting it down sucked, and I have a problem. Its leaking like a mother fucker!!!! I started the car and turned my defrost on to let the car cycle. When I first started it no leaks. I go in the house for 10 minutes come outside car is smoking and radiator fluid is leaking. I hosed the car down and will probably mess with it tomorrow. The clamp to the radiator side was really hard to get in there and tighten so I'm guessing thats where the leak is.
Well here is the pics I think it looks good!





I painted this little car Saturday about 4am, not bad for how fucked up I was!!!!

Looks good too bad it's leaking.....

Impressive paint job, considering....LOL

are you pleased with the product? told you it would only be a day or so!

Yes I am, after trying tu cut it with a brand new blade on my hacksaw. It took forever to cut so I guess the quality is their!!

good shit bro i am going to order!

Dont order the 1 1/2 clamp. I talked to Matt and he thinks thats the problem, he said your better off using a regular clamp from the auto parts store!

Looks real good Shawn. My experience with Summit product has been good. I'm sure the hose will hold up well and you'll be fine as soon as you get that clamp tightened up good.

Looks good hope ya get the leak worked out bro. I need one in black braided gonna start looking for one

Looks good on the car Shawn.. As we've talked about, it's not for me and my modding tastes but it fits in well for what you have going..

Sorry to hear that it's leaking and hopefully you'll get it worked out..

The paint job on the mini looks pretty good especially for being drunk and at 4am..

I think it looks good i have thought about doing this myself... i love the look of the older engine bays...

Headtripp wrote:

Looks good hope ya get the leak worked out bro. I need one in black braided gonna start looking for one

Good luck with that Vic, Summit only had steel braided, no colors. But if anyone can find it I'm sure it will be you!

Well problem fixed and no leaks as of yet. When I put the hose on the water neck side, I collapsed the hose a little bit so it wasnt completely seated correctly. So I decided to take the water neck off and put the hose on first which worked out better. So I asked Matt to come by since he is only 5 minutes away, I wanted a second opinion as to if it was seated correctly before I put it back together. Well low and behold we started the car to make sure the thermostat opened and nothing leaked. My heat was not blowing hot and the new hose wasnt heating up, well after the hose was leaking yesterday I somehow got air in my block. Well Matt noticed it and we pulled the thermostat and filled up the block with coolant and the problem solved. I'm glad Matt stopped by cause I would have probably not noticed it.

Thanks Matt

There's some good things to watch out for there (lessons learned). Thanks for sharing and glad you got er working!

The hoses look great and glad you got your problem solved!

chargerchick wrote:

The hoses look great and glad you got your problem solved!

Me too!!!!!
No I have to give my motor a good cleaning!

That looks GREAT man!!!! Glad you got you're leak taken care of!!!! I was thinking of doing the same thing to mine, till I got that Killer Glass for the upper hose......

Moparcharger06 wrote:

That looks GREAT man!!!! Glad you got you're leak taken care of!!!! I was thinking of doing the same thing to mine, till I got that Killer Glass for the upper hose......

When did you get the killer glass???

I got it from Vic the day of Fiesta Days. It's the piece for the bottom hose on the hemi's. I'm gonna adapt it to the upper hose on mine. I just got a new upper hose today actually to install it. Probably, MAYBE have it done by the weekend.

Nice.

Drove my car about 120 miles yesterday and no leaking. I think I'm in good shape!

Im glad you worked out your problem with the hose. Nice meeting you yesterday by the way!!

Glad everything got worked out and no more leaking.. Definitely good that Matt noticed the air in the block.. Could've turned into bad things..

Looks good. Sux that it leaks. You'll get it .

Did you just get 1.75" hose and cut it to length? For a hose that size w/ those bends, it's worth getting one made. Spectre will braid over a (new) factory hose - 100% guaranteed to fit, and it's the "real" braiding, not a cheap slip-over sleeve.

Super T wrote:

Did you just get 1.75" hose and cut it to length? For a hose that size w/ those bends, it's worth getting one made. Spectre will braid over a (new) factory hose - 100% guaranteed to fit, and it's the "real" braiding, not a cheap slip-over sleeve.

No, I ordered the hose from Summit and its real steel braided. Its 1.75 on one side and 1.50 on the other side, I did have to cut it down cause it was too long.