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Aidan wrote: ↑06 Feb 2022, 15:16

davidoft1 wrote: ↑05 Feb 2022, 19:32

TONYT25T25 wrote: ↑05 Feb 2022, 18:39 Until I saw these images and the remedy by Aidan I thought these connections were a more moulded and permanent fixture, does this mean if the metal inserts are rotting and are caught early enough can they be replaced before it splits the plastic pipe.  I have a small leak in this area on my van which I need to look at. E D I T, just realised the area in question is at the rear of the pipes not where it connects to the front of the vehicle via a rubber hose to the radiator which is where my leak is.

Yes , the inserts were and maybe still are available separately

really ? they were moulded into the plastic when they were made actually providing the necessary rigidty and a form for the lip to be moulded onto, afaik; they rot from the inside, crack the plastic, weep coolant so people replace the original spring clips which are very specifically sized and use jubilees (which are slightly D shaped due to the mechanism so they still weep), squeeze them tighter and tighter till they break the plastic tube and the two parts separate; virtually all the original send pipes I have seen have suffered from this and a lot of the return pipes too, usually at the radiator end