Reconditiohing NOS Hoses

So is there a way to put the red strip on that is correct? I see Marco has his with the clamp "splitting" the stripe.

I suppose one could go back and look at assembly line pix of the time.

Marco has probably already done that.

Joe K
 
My NOS hoses have been on my Tudor since 2001 with no issues. I left them alone and they are as fine today as when I installed them. They still get soft when the cooling system warms up.
 
Here's a trick from my father, he use to fly rubber powered free flight model airplanes. They would use a mixture of 50% glycerin and 50% liquid soap as a lubrication for the rubber bans. I make up this mixture and soak old rubber parts in it. Weatherstrips, seals. It will soften the rubber and bring it back but it takes time 5 -6 weeks some times depending on how hard the rubber has become. I also use it on the weatherstrips of my daily driver to keep the doors from freezing shut. It's water based so you have to wipe it back on after you wash the car. The nice thing is, if you have to paint the door jams you can wash it off with soap and water. Nope this helps. You can get the Glycerin at the corner drug store.

The Old Tinbasher.
 
Tinbasher said:
Here's a trick from my father, he use to fly rubber powered free flight model airplanes. They would use a mixture of 50% glycerin and 50% liquid soap as a lubrication for the rubber bans. I make up this mixture and soak old rubber parts in it. Weatherstrips, seals. It will soften the rubber and bring it back but it takes time 5 -6 weeks some times depending on how hard the rubber has become. I also use it on the weatherstrips of my daily driver to keep the doors from freezing shut. It's water based so you have to wipe it back on after you wash the car. The nice thing is, if you have to paint the door jams you can wash it off with soap and water. Nope this helps. You can get the Glycerin at the corner drug store.

Thanks, Tinbasher!
mike
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LOL, Bill why do you even bother to answer that that dude? didnt he give you enough grief when your wife was very sick? She dead now and at peace, ignore him, every body that that knows him or about him does, ryan really should have a talk with him, he insults any and every body that doesnt do as he thinks things should be done, peace Bill
 
I don't know if this will work or not, put when I was a kid, my dad bought some old original tires for his 1923 Nash that were hard as a rock and unusable.

Some how he found that burying them in yes COW MANURE would soften them. I remember going up to my uncles farm and we buried four tires in a pile of manure and left them there, I think over the winter. When we dug them out they were again soft and pliable. After washing them up he put them on the car, which we used for quite a few years on tours in the early 1960s.

Later He sold the car to a man from Balitimore, MD who then drove it all the way home from central CT. with no trouble at all.

Don't know if it would work with NOS hoses but it might be work a try???
 
t-head said:
I don't know if this will work or not, put when I was a kid, my dad bought some old original tires for his 1923 Nash that were hard as a rock and unusable.

Some how he found that burying them in yes COW MANURE would soften them. I remember going up to my uncles farm and we buried four tires in a pile of manure and left them there, I think over the winter. When we dug them out they were again soft and pliable. After washing them up he put them on the car, which we used for quite a few years on tours in the early 1960s.

Later He sold the car to a man from Balitimore, MD who then drove it all the way home from central CT. with no trouble at all.

Don't know if it would work with NOS hoses but it might be work a try???
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Was the manure fresh or aged ? ( Actually, I'm serious in asking the question...)
 
Special Coupe Frank said:
So, for those who have installed these fossilized hoses on their cars, how long do they last in service, what with the notorious vibration and flexing of the motor mounts, etc. ?
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Not to mention the vibration you are transferring to the fragile radiator through the solid hose.

There are reasons they didn't use solid pipes to connect the engine to the radiator. I'd assume vibration AND expansion\contraction.
 
Special Coupe Frank said:
Was the manure fresh or aged ? ( Actually, I'm serious in asking the question...)
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Frank, I don't remember as I was only about 5 or 6 at the time, but as he only had a few Black Angus cows for beef, I think it was aged and somewhat dry. It defiantly was not as it is fresh out of the cow and I think it was a bit dried out.

I live next to a dairy farm and the fresh manure from their cows is quite liquid and gooey.
 
MrTube said:
Not to mention the vibration you are transferring to the fragile radiator through the solid hose.

There are reasons they didn't use solid pipes to connect the engine to the radiator. I'd assume vibration AND expansion\contraction.
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As clearly noted, they very quickly become soft and pliable. It's a non-issue. Fragile radiator? You must be talking about modern ones. :D
 
Marco Tahtaras said:
As clearly noted, they very quickly become soft and pliable. It's a non-issue. Fragile radiator? You must be talking about modern ones. :D
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I don't know... Super thin brass soldered together with leaded solder doesn't exactly sound industrial to me. :p
 
When I first graduated I worked in a rubber research laboratory. From my experience you can not renew a NOS hose. It would be like trying to renew a tire with weathercracks. Basically they have lost their elastistity which means they dried out. They didn't lose their moisture in fact the oil part of the recipe has diminshed and you can not put the oil back in the hose or the tire. Can you still use it, of course because as said before there is no pressure in the hose. On a later model car with a pressure radiator cap it just would not hold up to the pressure.
Al
 
Well, I'll leave the Ante-deluvian hoses for the folk building "points" cars.

I hope folks don't have as much faith in Coolidge-era prophylactics... ;)



SC Frank
 
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