Looks like I need a new lower radiator hose

[avivalasvegas]

Any recommended/ reputed brand? A purchase link would be much appreciated!

[dougbgt6]

Silicone are good, you can get red ones 

Club shop have black, coloured 20% extra

Doug

[Mathew]

What!!! Change it before it starts leaking! Sounds too much like correct preventive maintenance to me 😄👍

[Chris A]

10 minutes ago, Mathew said:

What!!! Change it before it starts leaking! Sounds too much like correct preventive maintenance to me 😄👍

Yes, people like that should be banned from the forum they give the rest of us a bad name.

[Nigel Clark]

Club Shop black silicone fit well, last apparently forever, and look original. I've had sets on my GT6 and TR6 for over 10 years and they are still in good condition.  Best to fit them with stainless clips. 

Nigel

[Colin Lindsay]

1 hour ago, Nigel Clark said:

Club Shop black silicone fit well, last apparently forever

...and are no fun for anyone who likes tinkering... for Triumph owners, 'long life' are two four letter words....

[Mathew]

8 minutes ago, Colin Lindsay said:

...and are no fun for anyone who likes tinkering... for Triumph owners, 'long life' are two four letter words....

Don't worry colin, like all improvements it will show a weakness elsewhere . There is always somthing to tinker with! Thats why we love them.

[daverclasper]

On 01/04/2021 at 21:01, dougbgt6 said:

Silicone are good, you can get red ones 

No yellow (or chrome coloured) Doug 😉

[dougbgt6]

Dave,

I noticed the car in question was red. I have considered yellow for mine, but I think that might be a step too far, although I do have yellow dust caps on the tyres. Grand kids gave them to me so I had to use them. 

Doug

[daverclasper]

27 minutes ago, dougbgt6 said:

Grand kids gave them to me so I had to use them. 

Not a quiet little Santa wish for anything yellow in the kids ears then, or do they know you too well?.

[avivalasvegas]

Ended up buying this hose. Not silicon but £50 cheaper than the club shop set.

https://rimmerbros.com/Item--i-GRH513

[Pete Lewis]

its obviously cheaper  you are only buying a single hose not a club set and its chinessssse rubber not silicon 

the club set with lifetime warranty is £140 ,   yes maybe more than many wish to pay but they are fit and forget for life

not replace every couple of years full of splits etc.

Pete

 

 

[avivalasvegas]

I'm curious to know how long the rubber hose lasts. It is, to your point, lacking in quality. But for <£20 (vs. £140), is a bit more pragmatic. 

[Peter Truman]

Over here Colin it’s Indian rubber we had saloon engine mounts supplied by a local Triumph specialist that if you were lucky lasted a year, tracked back to India manufacture, the vulcanising failed.

We still have a local manufacturer who makes rubber hoses of good quality called McKay there local so I’ve always been able to find them but not Vitesse as not originally Aus CKD, I assume McKay supplied AMI in the day as CKD local manufacture component so have the formers/moulds

Got a set of Spitty ones ex WA from a known Triumph eBayer at $60 look and feel good in fact there were 2 spare small formed hoses that don’t fit our Spitty that fitted the Vitesse heater so that was a bonus!

[Pete Lewis]

but your comparing a single hose with a full kit  

if you get 2/3  years out of your single buy rubber youre lucky 

and rimmers rubbers a bottom hose is more £11  and a full kit £82 so sill£con is not quite double but lasts for ever

most rubbers degrade quite quickly with the outer skin cracking early 

I dont have silcon on the 2000 as yet but next change will be but they are less available than the small chassis cars

a rubber kit from Chris witor is £41 +v    i fully understand the cost implications but we are surrounded by 

very inferior rubber products with limited life or deep pockets and everlasting 

agree  its not everyones choice   

Pete

Pete 

[Dick Twitchen]

12 hours ago, avivalasvegas said:

a bit more pragmatic

But can I recommend you carry some self-amalgamating hose repair tape; got me out of trouble on Laon Historique with something similar, not very old and no warning.

Dick 

[Mathew]

44 minutes ago, Dick Twitchen said:

But can I recommend you carry some self-amalgamating hose repair tape; got me out of trouble on Laon Historique with something similar, not very old and no warning.

Dick 

Plus one on the tape. Going home early morning in the 90's my spitfire burst one of the small hoses by the manifold. The whole duel carriage way was covered with white smoke. A bit of tape and the water from the window washer got me the next 10 miles home!

 

[dougbgt6]

When my GT6 was reborn in 2013 (was it really that long ago? )  I bought a quality rubber hose set, I think from the club shop. They still look in reasonable condition, but when one fails, and it will, I shall be replacing with silicone.  Quality rubber hoses are increasingly rare and I wouldn't risk it, you get what you pay for.

Doug

[avivalasvegas]

Again, no disagreements on the merits of silicon vs Chinese rubber. I'll be sure replace all hoses at one go in a couple years. For now, all hoses look and feel supple except the lower hose. 

[Badwolf]

The problem with mine it that it is a sort of hydrid and none of the kits of hoses have all the required bendy bits. I don't recall seeing individual silicone hoses or hose by the metre, but must be honest, I haven't looked since you all helped me sort out my plumbing a couple of years ago.

[Pete Lewis]

its about in variuos shapes angles diameters 

eg https://www.carbuilder.com/uk/search?q=silicon+hose&cid=0&isc=true&mid=0&pf=&pt=&adv=false&isc=false&sid=false

 

[Badwolf]

Thanks Pete. Will the convoluted hose be suitable for heater, radiator etc and does it bend fairly sharply? Obviously not the duct hose.

[Pete Lewis]

I have no idea 

im into nasty cheap rubber just now .but having saved up in covid lock down the skys the limit 

on trucks we changed to silly  years back nice red ones , dealers would send black rubber back as warranty ...........on your bike

hitting the reject button  gave us annoying power to really upset crooks  in high places 

same with electronic injectors full of rusty crap   and at £800 a pop   we were very popular 

happy days 

Pete