Vacuum hose question...

[gforbess at attglobal.net (Gordon Forbess)]

On Sun, 03 Apr 2005 18:39:22 -0400, "John C. Worden"
<johncworden@verizon.net> wrote:

>Somebody has been selling this stuff on Ebay for a while, and I keep 
>thinking I should
>check to see if anyone knows what size our cars take so I can pick some 
>up.  This is
>more for the older cars, especially MkI's that used the short lengths of 
>cloth covered
>rubber line at the ends of all the vacuum lines.  Anyone know the inside or 
>outside
>diameter of this stuff?  If not, how about the diameter of those plastic 
>vacuum lines?
>And before someone suggests a better thing to use, this is for the '78 
>restoration, by
>which, I mean a true restoration-as the car would have come off the 
>assembly line.

I've had good luck finding bulk cloth covered line and other vacuum
system bits at aircooled parts places.  IIRC it comes in like 3, 5,
and 7mm ID, at least.  

Gordon

75 Mk I/Drake 1.9
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