95 Integra Radiator Help!

he was right about the hoses, in theory. i doubt they run $30/each,
unless he got them from a dealer.

 

for $60USD for 2 hoses, theyd better be made of unobtanium.

 

OEM hoses might not have a marking on them at all, but aftermarket hoses
will *usually* have say something like "goodyear", "gates", etc.

i think.

i dunno what compound honda has their supplier use for the hoses, but
ive never heard of one breaking, or had one break. and ive had a few 15+
year old honda vehicles. not cars, though. scooters.

 

OEM hoses have the manufacturer's name on them (mine say Yamashita) and the
date. As well, they have alignment dots for the things that attach to the
hoses, and for attaching the lower hose to the rad.

Or nothing if they are Goat Brand Made in China. And that's the danger.

You haven't. I have. Even OEM hoses get old. My original upper hose started
to get swollen when the system was under pressure. It was eight years old.
Coolant changed with OEM every two years. Now I replace the big hoses every
four/six years.

$4,000 for a motor, $60 for hoses. You decide.

 

Heater/IAC/Fast Idle Valve/thermostat-bypass hoses are small. When they
fail, it's not typically a catastrophic failure. Usually the ends leak
because somebody overtightened them.

Mine are original (15 years old) and feel fine. I have noticed a small
crack in the outer rubber of one heater hose, so this fall I will change
the two heater hoses before the winter.

 

I use well known brand name hoses on my vintage cars and generally get
ten years out of a set. Just be sure that they are first rate such as
Gates, etc...

All of the hoses currently in my '83 FE are aftermarket and I'm sure
that they will last at least five years, probably more.

JT

 

i did the mod on my tach-less dx. cost me $45 iirc.

sad indeed. my 2000 cx used to do mid/low 30's.

 

Geeeeeeez... Ain'tcha pushin' the envelope a bit? Or r u jis
cheeeeeep??? I'd just replace 'em all and rest with a secure feeling.

I have to admit though that the old hoses on my FE (which were probably
all original from 1983) still look OK with no cracks or swelling. In
fact, they will ride with me as spares just in case... (Remember, this
car had about a thirteen year siesta between operational modes).

JT

(Who ain't cheap, well maybe frugal though...)

 

Not cheap, just not seeing a pressing need to do it right now. Got lots of
other stuff to spend money on. A car gets close to 270K, and it becomes a
hobby...

I'll eventually replace them, but not now. Now that you've got me thinking,
I guess I'll do them in the fall, with the heater hoses (there are so damn
many of them; counting the heater hoses, seven in all). By then the pain of
the current bills should have faded from my thankfully porous memory.

Those little hoses tend to get hard and brittle. And when they do, they're
prone to cracking when you flex them. There's little actual pressure on the
walls on account of their low surface area, so little real stress. If you
have occasion to move them (such as when removing the IAC), that's when you
think about replacing them.

The big rad hoses have a very large surface area, so there's lots of room
for system pressure to act on, and thus lots of stress on the structure of
the hose. When they go pop, they go POP! Your coolant is barfed out in
seconds.

Tom-ay-to, tom-ah-to...

 

Or the Dan Quale varient... "tomatoe"

<G>

JT

 

I called the mechanic and that's what he said exactly, that it's either
Goodyear or Gates for the aftermarket.

 

If aftermarket, choose Gates...

JT

 

Better be a BIG <g> there, big guy.

Poor Danny. With cameras and klieg lights sunburning his fair skin, he was
presented with a mis-spelled flash card while hosting a spelling contest.
What to do? Rather than risk ruffling feathers, he went with the flow and
allowed what the card said. And the media have never let him forget it.

Poor Danny. He was a pretty sharp fellow, actually.

 

You could always toss a tube of Aluma-Seal in the radiator, long as the
leak is not too large.

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And as long as you don't like your motor too much...

 

I put some in a Vanagon Waterboxer once. They have a known cylinder studs
pulling loose problem. It squealed like an enraged and frightened hamster
with its fur caught in the exercise wheel, then quieted down. I had it for
a couple years after that with no additional problems. The previous
generation told me that used car salespersons used to use pepper. It would
swell up and seal the cracks for a while.

Earle