Strange water hose (Pics added)

Post by **Macflai** » 24 May 2006, 11:22

Folks! hi!

I was trying to fix a broken water hose from the water pump to the cylinder head and I saw it has inside a plastic or teflon piece with a 5mm hole in it, whats that for? Is that normal in my engine (1.6Td)?? Do I install it again or not?

Thx in advance!

Post by **Macflai** » 25 May 2006, 17:11

Thx for all ur answers

just kidding... I will try to make a better question meaning the same...

Why has that water hose a plastic thing with smaller hole through it? is not normal if the water hose has inside more or less 15mm of interior diameter suddenly a 5mm inside diameter...

I feel like a f****** alien

Post by **Cate** » 25 May 2006, 18:00

That makes more sense!

Is it a used one that someone has once rammed another inside then couldn't get it out and thought they'd put it on anyway, ir has the outer got a split and they 'repaired' it by jamming another inside?
Just a couple of thoughts.

Post by **Cate** » 25 May 2006, 20:16

Here's some pics of the offending part...

so whats that then, and whats it for?

Post by **trickydicky** » 26 May 2006, 07:09

I give up

What is it for

Can we stop doing these picture quizes please

Post by **Cate** » 26 May 2006, 11:08

It doesn't seem like its something that would get in there by accident... someone must have met this before?
A suggestion from boss-man, could it be to restrict water flow and allow build up of pressure behind it for some reason.
I take it that it is solid material (apart from the hole through the middle) rather than a filter spongey type thing?

Post by **Macflai** » 26 May 2006, 13:25

I finally installed yesterday as it was, put coolant, opened the radiator bubble thing and the van works nicely... temp around a bit under the middle red light so I think it works... I will ask in a VW garage one day and I will post it here...

Post by **Ray** » 26 May 2006, 19:58

Nothing resembling that on bentley diagram of cooling system, maybe its some kind of bodge to increase heater circulation or something like that.

Post by **Macflai** » 26 May 2006, 20:01

Another turbo but for coolant, so more problem to expect...

Post by **Russel** » 26 May 2006, 20:20

In all my years of T3's i have never seen this fitted.But there are some strange things fitted to northen european vans to help in the extreem cold.
In the Uk or Ireland this is not a standard fitting.
I personaly would remove it.

Post by **Macflai** » 26 May 2006, 20:25

Russel at Syncro-Nutz wrote:In all my years of T3's i have never seen this fitted.But there are some strange things fitted to northen european vans to help in the extreem cold.
In the Uk or Ireland this is not a standard fitting.
I personaly would remove it.

In all my years of diesel and petrol machines, mercedes benz, opel astra, honda civic, lot of land rovers and blablablah, I never seen that also... but it works, and by the way this van was bought in Germany in 1986 and was imported to the Canary Islands, Spain, in 2004 or so... I don't know if German cars have special specs...

Post by **Macflai** » 18 Jun 2006, 13:31

Finally I used the water hose without that part... It has worked all the kilometres I have driven around Europe... Here in Burgos, Spain, one of my cousins has a garage and he told me that thing is installed inside the water hose to avoid high pressures inisde the refrigeratrion system... I really don't know if that is the correct answer or not but my vans runs okay!...