Re: Hose Clamps
Posted by BigKev On 2008/10/22 20:28:54
Perhaps I went off half-cocked on this one.
I went back and looked at the PI Guide picture again and at first glance it looks like the double wire type. But if you look really close as it, and then compare it to the spring type clamp it the same picture, then it is actually a flat band clamp with the void in the middle (double-band strap style). I was going from memory from looking at the guide awhile back. Perhaps the e-bay vendor thought the same thing.
Upon re-reading the desciption, they describe it as a "Strap Clamp". So perhaps this was all my mistake based at a quick look at the picture and the fact the hose set I got prior from Kanters came with all double-wire clamps and I had never seen the double-band strap style clamp before.
So the PI guide is actually correct and if I had not seen the double-wire clamps that came with the hose set or had seen the double-band style before hand, then I would have read it more clearly and not assumed they were referencing the double-wire style.
So my fault.
But hopefully this has not been a complete waste of time as it was a good exercise and points out the correct ones and the fact that the water-pump inlet is a different clamp compared to the other hoses. It also shows that there was a different between the clamps used on the 54 and prior and the 55/56 models. The 55/56 models look to have a solid band strap clamp, and the 54 and prior models have a double-band (or split) strap clamp.
So now I go off and try to find that correct double-band clamp, and hopefully wont shoot myself in the foot!
I went back and looked at the PI Guide picture again and at first glance it looks like the double wire type. But if you look really close as it, and then compare it to the spring type clamp it the same picture, then it is actually a flat band clamp with the void in the middle (double-band strap style). I was going from memory from looking at the guide awhile back. Perhaps the e-bay vendor thought the same thing.
Upon re-reading the desciption, they describe it as a "Strap Clamp". So perhaps this was all my mistake based at a quick look at the picture and the fact the hose set I got prior from Kanters came with all double-wire clamps and I had never seen the double-band strap style clamp before.
So the PI guide is actually correct and if I had not seen the double-wire clamps that came with the hose set or had seen the double-band style before hand, then I would have read it more clearly and not assumed they were referencing the double-wire style.
So my fault.
But hopefully this has not been a complete waste of time as it was a good exercise and points out the correct ones and the fact that the water-pump inlet is a different clamp compared to the other hoses. It also shows that there was a different between the clamps used on the 54 and prior and the 55/56 models. The 55/56 models look to have a solid band strap clamp, and the 54 and prior models have a double-band (or split) strap clamp.
So now I go off and try to find that correct double-band clamp, and hopefully wont shoot myself in the foot!
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