How to bend
Rubber Hose
Part 2, Creating your own custom formed silicone cooling hoses for your car
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hi folks and welcome back to my channel
and in this video we're going to look at
custom-made cooling hoses we all know
the problem when you fit a different
engine in the car a retrofit or whatever
or you modify the radiator that you
really can't fit the original hoses on
to the car because they don't fit so
then you ending up with what we call a
custom-made hose
now this is one that somebody built and
you've seen it in my previous video on
how that was leaking and as you can see
this hose is actually leaking here we go
water sea water comes out on the sides
here so that's not good this is a bad
host and I expected that because so
we'll build a new custom-made hose for
that this was a lousy build with some
tape and a spanner here now I have no
issues with spanner because you'll see I
will use them as well but then inside
there is no proper coupling piece so I
had to toss that away but besides that I
had the problem to find a replacement
hose for this I probably got something
similar that put together but I wanted
to get a silicon-based hose because I
want to take care of my car now what you
see right here that is a silicon-based
hose that I put together and that was
the hose that was on the vehicle before
and it was leaking all over the place
and you see the tape over here so let's
do away with that one this is the new
hose that I put together and you can see
it's been built out of different
segments
that's one segment and there's another
segment and another segment and it's a
bit of a strange curve I had to make and
that's why I couldn't do it in one piece
so I just got a few pieces off and you
can actually see how thick that is right
so this is really a thick piece so this
is about four millimeters and you see
that it's a triple play so you have like
three times these white dots these are
three layers of enforcement and then you
have the silicon around it this is
really strong stuff now at the inside it
is a very very smooth it's a really nice
and cutting it is quite easy cutting
those hoses is a piece of cake all you
need is a good sharp knife a cutter
knife and then it just works like a
champ let me show you once you get in
now watch your fingers just turn it
around there you go that's how easy it
is to cut and if it isn't straight
enough you can actually scrape off
pieces if you really have to but
normally you can do a straight cut so
folks these tips they come in all kind
of dimensions thicknesses for the sides
how many plies you have those that I
have right here I have our three plies
and they have four millimeters thick
sides they're good for ten bar and it
can operate between minus 50 and hundred
and eighty degrees centigrade so that's
good enough for the car for sure you can
order those in oil resistant and acid
resistant variants that's what I did
it's all silicone based as well and you
can have different shapes you know this
one is a 45 degree corner and you can
order them with different lengths of the
legs this is a 90 degree are tube as you
can see and again you can order them
with different lengths of the legs so
that's good now the good thing about
these hoses you can order up full
lengths and your kind of straight you
can bend them a little bit but you
shouldn't bend them too much all by all
this is a very good system and quite
reasonable in price so if you're
interested where I got mine and that's
the only store where I found it then
have a look on the link I'm showing you
here on the video and now I'm not making
a
Michelle for that store but it's
worthwhile matching it is if you look on
that website you'll see what they have
now the good thing about it is that you
can copy all this together
with those inserts and here I have an
insert right and this insert is very
smooth this particular one is in our
Lumina meone but you can get them also
in stainless steel and if you look very
closely they're very thin so this is the
front of the chip and this is the
thickness as you can see and you see the
three enforcement layers in sight but if
you look inside the tube then you see
this shiny metal piece and that's the
coupler that metal part that sits inside
and you can see how thin that is so they
don't form any obstruction of the flow
of the liquid inside the tube so all
what you need to do is just put that in
and then put the other chip whatever
that side is it doesn't really matter
now like so there we go and it's nicely
put together right so this is the piece
and you can see how thin the edges are
and you can see also the rips that it
has on it to a distance slide back so
all you need to do is slide it in and
it's it's it's a tight fit but it works
you can hear it on the sound right put
it like half way and that's it
make sure that you cut the edges right
that's important and then all you need
to do is tighten it up oh where is it
over here right
tighten it up both sides and now you
have a very solid joint which looks
alright it would be great I think if I
could mold them together but that's not
possible but this is what I've done on
my car and it has worked out quite well
so guys this is what I had to say to you
so folks we're now nearing the end of
this video and you've seen on how we've
built a custom-built
cooling pipe and you've seen the one
that I have on the car I don't have to
show you and how I've put it together
because you can see how you do this with
all the different curves and corners and
and I have and all the pieces that I
still have left it's an easy way to
build your own custom build hosts to
your specs inside they are very smooth
it is an easy flow I know you can buy
these flexible tubes as well but they
have kind of waffles on and you can bend
them in all kind of directions they're
not that smooth inside so they cause
more resistance to the water flow and
that's not what I wanted to have and
these are very good prices guys I mean
really and they deliver very fast as
well so I like this now if you think
that I'm full of it please bail means
let me know and correct me why I'm wrong
because I don't know everything I know a
little bit of things and I know that
this solution works great for me but
maybe there are better options and
better solutions so I'm looking forward
to your comments and recommendations
don't hold back
just shoot at me alright guys so I'll
see you in my next video bye bye
