I am new to this. How does it look? What are the advantages of it? If you have them post pics of it please, I want to see how it looks. Thanks

marshall

 

Clear? I don think it would look very good unless your coolent was clean as can be.... only advantage i can think of is you can SEE your coolent flowing into the radaitor

 

pics?? bump

 

Ya i would kinda like to see a pic also. It would be cool to see at how high rpm you can go and then see if there is any cavitation where coolent would stop flowing.

CJG

 

Yes, it would be very cool looking. But then again, i want to see some pics of them and possibly where to get them...so pics?

 

I think its stupid...

But maybe thats just me.

 

bumpidy bump bump

 

i have a clear hose on that goes frm the radiator to reservoir. you can see all the little stuff floating around my my coolant

 

i am going to get some big sturdy clear hose for the main line that goes to the waterpump off the left of the radiator. i think that would look cool as well. (have to flush the coolant first of course)

 

i found a pic, i found it off a earlier post about sleepy headlight mods. what do you guys think?

 

that looks like a metal hose to me

 

ok for some odd reason i thought it looked clear, I do apologize for that.

 

thats one clean engine

 

OMG, i wish i could get my car to clean up

about the clear house, does it get nasty inside? or does it stay clear?

 

We used a machine to power flush radiators at a shop we used to work at. It flushed it with coolant, and the hook-up tubes were made of clear plastic with braided strand's in it to hold the pressure.
It didn;t take long for the hoses to yellow and brown fron the heat of the coolant.

Now put those same hoses in an underhood environment where the water temps and ambient temperatures are much higher....
It'd be yellowed and hideous in under a month.

 

so is that your car scathcart?

 

No, my car is black, but looks similar.
I need a digital camera.

Some of us have an electric water pump, so cavitation isn't a worry...

 

Yes, a clear hose would definitely become old and nasty brown in color very fast. Take a look at your Tupperware. How many of you have that red spaghetti sauce color stuck in the plastic?

The clear plastic hose is somewhat of a good idea, but I have yet to hear about any plastic that can:

1) Withstand the heat.
2) Withstand the pressure.
3) Will not oxidize or change color.

If someone can point me to a plastic that can do this, I'll be willing to perform this "mod". To be able to monitor the general condition of your coolant will make it easy to figure out when to flush the stuff out.

 

Oh, I am sure there are plastics that could hack it, just none widely available or worth the price.

 

I still don't see the appeal of clear hoses besides cavitation which could be seen by the contraction of the hoses.

 

I have a friend that put clear hoses on his boat. he got it at homedepot. Hes taken the boat out about 12 times sence then, and has no problems. The reason he did it was that he was haveing coolant problems and he wanted to see if it was flowing. I say it about a month ago and didnt see any discoloration. Of course he only has maybe 78 hours on it.

 

Alrighty folks. I think we need to stop using this buzzword, "Caviation". And find out what it really means. Me included.

http://www.gewater.com/library/tp/78...nding_Pump.jsp

On clear hose. It would just make me feel bad for having coolant with crap in it.


James