Coolant pipes

[chriscburgess]

If you dont want the stainless option go to Pirtek. They supply high pressure hoses for all sorts of industrial purposes. Far stronger than those you will get for your van. I had to replace the long one from the engine to heater valve last year . Cost about £40. You buy it by the metre. Its been fine ever since and coped with 34 degrees and heavy traffic in Spain last year.

The only thing to watch out for is that end to the engine is actually a bigger bore than the heater valve end. So i bought one long strip and a short strip with bigger bore and then a hydraulic hose connector to put them together.

[ghost123uk]

I know what I would do here = try it (at that price difference !) - I reckon it would be fine ( but I stand ready to be corrected )

keep the internal bore the same - td engines need the water flow!

And corrected I stand

[colinthefox]

I've just asked JK the same question, and they replied. So to save them a deluge of emails.......

J15346 are 38mm
J15348 are 32mm

Pretty dumb that they don't say that in the catalogue.

[sjmtlewy]

and J15345?

[redtwoseater]

Hi, I got some from JK, almost fitted them today on my 1990, 1600 TD Westy. Had to get some more rubber hose, as the new pipes were about a foot short! Phoned JK, they say, they are the right pipes but you have to make them fit. No mention on website. Has anybody esle had this problem? Oh, and I just dropped the tank just enough on a jack, to slide the pipes through.
Cheers Paul.

[billy739]

standard diesel / early petrol (metal) pipes finish in the engine bay

late petrol one finish in front of the bulkhead , one about 6 inches behind the other about a foot away , so you prob got petrol pipes , not sure if they do diesel ones.

[getunder]

2 years ago got 3 offers of plastic pipes on E-bay £40 to £70.

[Simon Baxter]

We just started stocking these, not got loads but we have all variants.
early 32mm (petrol and Diesel), syncro, early petrol/all Diesel and the late WBX ones.
Just trying to get a feel of stock levels.
Not on the webshop yet but will be soon once we have enough stock where we are confident we can sell them without running out and annoying customers.
I think they are the same supply as JK.
Never heard of "making them fit" the ones we've fitted in the workshop have always fitted as well as some stainless steel pipes replacing plastic pipes can do, sometimes struggle getting them clipped back up to the chassis but we always manage, it's not like the plastic ones were a dream to fit either.
The pipes are numbered, 397 and 399, you need to get them the same number for the same pipe.