Hoses
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Honestly a Manners kit for about 70 quid is in my view quite OK. If you go to silicone, then silicone classic hoses, somewhere in Leics, are the only ones I would trust, but double the price; AND you need Mikelor clips with them, AND you need to tighten them up after a few hours of running after first fitting them - which is not at all easy on many of them.
The best thing to do, IMO, is to buy a kit,; but also buy a length of top notch Viper silicone hose of the right diameters to cut to length to do the three crosspipe hoses with. These get a huge amount of heat and silicone for them is worth it I have found, as when renewing them, the normal ones always look on their last legs.
The normal kit elsewhere will outlast you unless you are putting 25,000 miles a year on the car.
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I'm not sure I've gotten comfortable with the sudden and spontaneous ruptures silicone hoses provide, and for quite a premium.
The standard type hoses seem to last a mighty long time and are more apt to give warning signs before imminent rupture.
That being said, if there are specific hoses on a v12 that would benefit from silicone, then have at it!
What about something completely asinine, like sleeving a silicone hose...nah, nevermind, I feel foolish as I even type it.
The standard type hoses seem to last a mighty long time and are more apt to give warning signs before imminent rupture.
That being said, if there are specific hoses on a v12 that would benefit from silicone, then have at it!
What about something completely asinine, like sleeving a silicone hose...nah, nevermind, I feel foolish as I even type it.
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Everything I learned about replacing hoses, belts, radiators, and thermostats, with an extra bonus question on the hood shocks:
https://www.jaguarforums.com/forum/x...rtible-162009/
https://www.jaguarforums.com/forum/x...rtible-162009/
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