So I gave in and bought new hoses and metal pipe from XKs Unlimited. Put hose onto water pump as far as it would go in, then got metal pipe pretty far in and at the bottom end the metal pipe extend past the fitting on the radiator leaving no room for the bottom hose. Called XKs cause I knew there were a variety of such metal piples for different years etc. and she just said these were hand made cars and each one is different so had to cut hose to fit, not sure how that will help if metal pipe exends past radiator fitting, other than lubricating the metal pipe and inserting all the way into upper house until it touches water pump and doing same on bottom end so metal pipe touches metal fitting on radiator, this just might work but seems nightmare of fitment and not what use to genericlly. Any thoughts?
Jay, '67 series 1, thanks all
Jay, '67 series 1, thanks all