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to buy the plastic water pipe front to back for your van

do you mean the rad pipes?
VW, or a breaker i think are about the only options.......

someone was going to make them out of stainless, but i dont remember it ever happening?

Oh god technical ,, not sure Mocki, its the pipe that runs from the radiator front to back, heard you can get them in plastic now, mines steel on the van and corroding, so need some more .correction, 1 more

some in Preston

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/VW-T25-PLASTIC-WA ... 286.c0.m14

yes, plastic ones come from late vans, (86 onwards)

diesels have one shorter than the other iirc, but i cant remember which is the shorter one.......rtn i think.......

try syncronutz or syncrospares, or t25spares or billynumbers

Thank you, BOTH

sorry you can't just replace the metal pipes for plastic ones
the diameter is larger and the rubber hoses won't go on .
you can get away with just replacing the rotten bit with rubber hose.
I have even seen blue plastic pipe used.
ps we can carrie out the conversion to plastic pipes inc the hoses, we have done a few now and have the parts in stock .
but it' not the cheepest option.

Now i am confused

you can replace metal early pipes with plastic late pipes, yes it is tight, but several of us have done it..........

Funny that !!!
I have a petrol engine and changed my metal ones for plastic with no problem.

The plastic ones a great but you need to be VERY carefull as the metal at both ends tends to rust on the inside and can cause "compression" leaks when jubilee clips are tightend.

If you need any further info, you have my number, ring me.

Phredd

Thanks Phredd x and mocki x

if old hoses are too tight a squeeze you can get hoses with different diameter at each end and bodge to engine bay pipework.
I have good sections of the old steel pipes poking into engine bay, then adapter pipes going onto the plastic pipes. I got new hoses for front end but you could do the same here, chop down the existing hoses a bit, put a good bit of the steel pipes into them (pref the ends of the steel pipe as they have a flare in them) then adapter pipe.
iirc I got the adapter pipes from halfwits or local motor factors. 38mm to 32mm or something around that size.

THANK YOU