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New vacuum lines beware
Just venting here. Took out bird for a nice run yesterday and on way back swore I had miss
when at cruising rpm. Found this when o popped good tonight to double check timing. Really it’s only a year old. This when the connection to vacuum advance on HEI. Ironically I put old hose back on and called it a day. Where do we get good hose from nowadays?! Gerry
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Unfortunately it seems to be like that with all the rubber products we get these days.
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I've noticed a lot of the color coded re-pop vacuum lines are of marginal quality. Probably a result of custom low volume product coming out of China. Best way to get good hose is to buy name brand, US made products in a spool.
Long time ago I bought a spool of 1/8, 3/16, 1/4, 5/16, 3/8" and they have lasted me for years. Not cheap though. I think the industry name is "Low Pressure Petroleum" hose. Or order spools of Gates automotive vacuum line from lots of sources. I used to go to the auto parts store and just ask how much the entire spool of hose was.
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I bought a few different brands years ago, appeared to be same stock in different packs. From day 1 the stripe rubbed off just installing it, and later dried and cracked. Replaced with local stock.
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Gates hose in there green stripe line was the premium stuff and may still be but I can't confirm since I am still working off of 25 ft I purchased at least 18 years ago.
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U-Pull-It hoses are the best
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I recently put new heater hoses on sourced from a well-known Pontiac vendor. After getting some heat in the engine found pin hole leak in one of the brand-new hoses. Ridiculous! Also, this past week put on a brand new brake booster from the same company. Bad internal leak from the vacuum diaphragm.
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