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Does anybody know if there are different sized pipes for the front to rear plastic cooling pipes running to and from the radiator. By this I mean is, for example, the diesel engined one a different size to the petrol ones. Or maybe the different sized petrol engined ones are different. Or maybe they changed over the years? Anybody shed any light on this. It will answer a very niggling question for me re: the hoses!
I don't need to know the sizes etc, just if there were some differences.
Thanks

iirc.petrol,diesel and syncro are all different.i bought some of the stainless jk ones(£200) for mine.and they are very good quality.and hopefully they will now outlast the van..

Some earlier vans had smaller diameter metal pipes. 32mm I think. I think the later plastic pipes are 38mm. I don't know which models or ages had what. You can get sleeves to fit larger rubber hoses over the smaller metal pipes. Made by Gates available from car builder solutions if that helps.
Regards,
Mike.

Thanks you two, exactly what I needed to hear. Problem, or rather head spinning uncertainty, sorted! Answered my question precisely.
Seems like yet a further bodge on my van. Easily sorted now though!

diesel ones are shorter than petrol ones , not by a great deal, but shorter all the same.
early one are metal , later ones plastic.
on my old petrol van i changed the metal ones for diesel plastic ones, without removing the petrol tank !

You must be double jointed ole fruit - or stubborn

yep, im stubborn!

it wasnt that hard to be honest, just need to get the van high enough off the floor to manouvre the pipes in...
took almpost as long as taking the tank down i recon, but without the hasle of getting the tank back up - fat arms and little spaces and all that.....

steve,i thought there was a bracket above the tank that holds the pipes.how did you get around that.