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Gundy

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Driving home today in me ol trusty '72 FJ40 I noticed the distinct smell of burning oil. Hmmmm....water temp was a cool 165....oil pressure was steady at 60psi....vacuum was steady
at about 20...tranny tunnel was cool...what could it be?
Looked in the rear view mirror and it looked like I was driving an old mosquito fogging truck. I pull in the driveway and pop the hood. Man it looked like somebody stabbed an artery!
Cough,cough..man, burning oil is noxious stuff.
Oil was squirting on the header from a set of "burst proof" oil lines I had installed about 20 years ago. Burst proof my butt!
I guess 20 or so years of hanging around a set of headers took it's toll. I pulled it in to it's parking spot and looked back at the trail of oil down the gravel drive. If I hadn't known better I'd of thought an LBC was marking it's turf. :devilgrin:
What's become of quality? Is 20 years too much to ask of a
set of oil lines.
Anyway, they make 'em in SS now. I just hope this new set doesn't fail on me in a mere couple of decades. :jester:
 
Not to toss Castrol-R onna fire here, BUT: Before I'd trust those spivin' white-box braided hoses I'd head for a local hydraulics supply house with the old ones in-hand and see if they wouldn't fab up a set from those... better if they're AeroQuip franchised. You could get braided ones then.


...just my odd proclivity, mind you.
 
I'd recommend cast iron gas line if you want something lasting beyond 25 years.
 
DrEntropy said:
Not to toss Castrol-R onna fire here, BUT: Before I'd trust those spivin' white-box braided hoses I'd head for a local hydraulics supply house with the old ones in-hand and see if they wouldn't fab up a set from those... better if they're AeroQuip franchised. You could get braided ones then.


...just my odd proclivity, mind you.
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We do have a very nice hose shop in the city. They make 'em while you wait. They do all the hoses/lines for my MBs at a
great savings too.
These darn things have a weirdo banjo fitting and the ends
on the old lines aren't reuseable.
I'll still wrap those rascals in heat shield material because
there is no way to keep them farther than about an inch from
the header.
They weren't too bad, about $70 for the two. We do refer to the
Cruiser supplier known as Spector Off Road as $OR for a reason.
They do however make quality items. The headers I just installed on the FJ60, for example, came from $OR but are
ceramic coated 3 into 2 into 1 Eldenbrocks. Very nice but
again $$$.
I should have checked with Cline Co. first. They may have been able to save me some dough even with the price of gas on a trip to the big city.
:jester:
 
Luckily we LIVE near th' Big City here. I have two hydraulics fab shops and a "truck" brake shop nearby. I can get shoes or clutch discs relined "while-u-wait" too. Have had a sets of Rollie rear brakes relined for peanuts in hours rather than hundreds and months in the past.

Hoses and suchlike are usually easy: "Amazon Hose & Rubber". Great bunch!
 
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