Installing radiator hoses

Might help to mention:

"Removing Radiator Hoses" in lieu of just "Installing Radiator Hoses."

Inexperienced "non-hose mechanics" will usually pull on a rubber radiator hose, (or even pull on a small lawn mower rubber gas line hose) to remove it.

As the hose is pulled forcefully and elongated, the hose diameter decreases and severely tightens itself on the metal; hence the harder one pulls, the tighter the hose holds on to the metal.

One hose "Removal Method" is to get a small wood stick about 6" long x 1" wide by 1/2" minimum thickness and use it to "push" on the end of the hose ...... also helps to have the inner diameter of the stick curvilinear if one likes to get technical.

Creative? Now, if one wants to get creative, in lieu of a blunt wood stick, use a sharper steel screw driver ........ then after the application of brute force ........ and after the sharper screw driver slips off of the end of the hose ...... one can prance back to the kitchen to ask his wife to help pull the screw driver out of his hand.

Hope this helps.
 
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Or just use the proper removal tool:)
Hope this helps
 

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When I go to H/F for my free flashlight, I look for some cheap thing to buy. I knew I really needed another hose removal tool, so that's what I bought last year.
Now, maybe my other one will turn up.:D
 
Soap. Just enough to make it slippery. Extra will wash away and it comes off easily. I don't use anything that is permanent or that could attack the rubber, like oil or grease.
I was watching some guys put the hoses on a Model T and they slopped silicone sealer on the pipe. They didn't wait for it to set overnight. They just filled the system with water and started the engine. As the engine heated up, the hose started slipping down the pipe and then the hose blew right off. After that they tried to get the very slippery silicone off the hose so they could try it again without the sealer and couldn't do it, so they had to get a new hose.
 
Not sure whos mind is in the gutter but K-Y is a great choice, it is water soluble and will not harm rubber. I posted this solution once on the old Ford Barn and people thought I was being nasty but wasn't. It works but keep an open mind. When I explained it they realized I was being serious about it.
 
Hi Marvin,

Per your reply #30, don't ever get offended by those who lash out and deem one's mind is in the gutter.

What I found later in life from those pretending to be immaculate is that our prisons are full of correctional officers who are the biggest crooks smuggling & selling drugs in prison; don't even mention those always preaching religion; i.e., when visited, some who don't eat pork hide their ham in the oatmeal box in the fridge when visited by others; some T-totalers hide their whiskey bottle in the washing machine when visted; and some hide their birth control pills in a box of Tide when visited.

In my humble opinion, if our Model A parts catalogs listed K-Y next to their radiator hoses, it is very possible quite a few customers' orders would include K-Y in their orders even if someone was only ordering spark plug connectors.

Thanks for your honest opinion.
 
I must be getting old (67). I can remember when changing a hose was simple. After reading this I may let them do this down at the service station. Ooops! We don't have those anymore, do we?
 
Redbird said:
I must be getting old (67). I can remember when changing a hose was simple. After reading this I may let them do this down at the service station. Ooops! We don't have those anymore, do we?
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take it to the FORD dealer lol
you think you got problems now hah

2 pages of 101 hose changing yea i guess that could scare some off :cool:
 
If you have the proper tool(s) -- (see post #24), have "something" to lubricate the hose, and just a little common sense, it's a slam dunk!

I think I just didn't even think about it the first time I had to do this. Oh, wait, I was only 14 or so, didn't know about over thinking a job, just did it!
 
springerpete said:
If you use Brill Cream, as suggested, just " a little dab'll do ya."
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does anyone besides me and H.L. remember their jingle:

"Brylcream, a little dab will do ya,
Brylcream, you'll look so debonair,
Brylcream, a little dab will do ya,
She'll love to run her fingers through your hair!"

The stuff was so greasy, after running her fingers through your hair, she probably washed her hands in kerosene.
 
Marvin/TN said:
Not sure whos mind is in the gutter but K-Y is a great choice, it is water soluble and will not harm rubber. I posted this solution once on the old Ford Barn and people thought I was being nasty but wasn't. It works but keep an open mind. When I explained it they realized I was being serious about it.
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It takes a thick skin sometimes to responses to a forum like this. It doesn't take much to tick off some people.
 
I take my hoses off with two aluminum wrenchs.
 

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