everything ages. today I went through my vacuum lines and most litterally crumbled in my hands when i took them off. the fuel line i replaced them with was vastly more flexible and im sure wont leave me stranded somewhere. the old ones got very brittle and hard, the nearer to a heat source they were.

Yeah they harden up something awfull. I was trying to pull some off this Loyale I'm stripping... rock solid in most places! Radiator is corroding away to nothing also.

everything ages. today I went through my vacuum lines and most litterally crumbled in my hands when i took them off. the fuel line i replaced them with was vastly more flexible and im sure wont leave me stranded somewhere. the old ones got very brittle and hard, the nearer to a heat source they were.

My wife's 87 Twagon has been losing coolant, so she wanted it FIXED!

 

So, on Sunday afternoon I started removing stuff to get at the usual suspects around the intake. First casualty was the plastic PVC "tree" behind the TURBO plenum, followed closely by one of the PVC hoses attached to it... and another. The second PVC hose that broke went back to the case breather, and it broke again trying to take it off of the case end.

 

I then broke one of the plastic tubing-nipples off of one of the solenoids, and while removing it to repair it, broke off the other nipple and both vac tubes that had attached to it. The small coolant tube that runs from the TB area to the t-stat area also broke at both ends. The turbo outflow tube was in surprisingly good shape for being regular heater hose; it looked like PO had changed it recently.

 

Oh, almost forgot: The radiator inlet broke. Plastic header, the plastic for some reason split along its circumference, breaking off a ring of the last inch of the inlet.

 

Three hours after sunset, unable to feel 3 of my left-hand fingers due to the cold, I was finally done. Well, almost, as I couldn't quite seat one of the the airbox latches as my fingers were numb and the rubber MAF-to-turbo to was as stiff as a board. Guess I should go back and finish that.

 

And my wife wonders why I don't want to fix "minor" things on her daily driver when I only have a free hour or two.