I had Gates hose fail twice. I heated the flexible plastic hose by holding the end in hot oil on the stove to get it hot enough to soften., because boiling water wasn't hot enough. There's a narrow temperature range between softening and melting, so have a spare hose if anybody is going to try it. Sorry I don't remember, I think it was 300 degrees. I was determined to make it fit after having two failures with the Gates hose.

 

I did that too with the white hose and a heat gun. It was a motherfuc@&r. Your right, there is a narrow window where it goes from pliable to melting.

 

Yea and finding that range with a lighter sucked ***... I went through more than one spare, I'll leave it at that.

 

Yea considering the gates hose right next to the failed one is perfectly fine I am just going to replace the failed one with the gates that should be here today. I am thinking the installed height was off so when it was installed the second hose was stretched instead of relaxed so I am going to be more careful about installed height to make sure its relaxed when installed.

 

Use some flexible "straw" hose like OEM and oetiker clamps it won't burst/split like that rubber hose.

 

If you order nylon hose, buy backups as they can be a bitch to get on.

 

Thanks for joining in....... Lol

 

What about using those plastic flexy hose things?

 

You people

Got it fixed last night and made sure to compress it to the installed height first, ended up only needing a 2.5" section of hose to fix it. Straight shot from the pump to the barb. Its also funny just how big this bucket is. Tons of room in there for fluid to keep the pumps submerged. No external holes except for the flapper valves at the bottom. My setup is a bit bastardized, its an 05 bottom bucket with an 07 top in an 07 tank.



Installed and tested both pumps and everything is good now. Also got the reference line to the cutout ran to a vacuum block off the lower manifold.

 

No way to put a loop in that hose? Probably what I would have tried. Would have given you some room to play with.