Heater matrix bypass

[gray]

Heys guys have a small leak in my heater matrix. I want to bypass it what would be the best way?
I know many of you would never do this in your countries, but here in the Dominican Republic it is nothing but HOT so its not needed!
As peugeot has special ends with o rings and clips what do you suggest?


Thanks gray


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[steve_earwig]

Maybe you can bridge it somehow with some 15mm copper tube and some worm drive clips


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[gray]

I wish! Went to the hardware store and have nothing in copper this country doesnt use because nobody has hot water!
Other than cutting the rubber lines and joining them which i can do but didnt really want to. Was looking for other ideas?






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[Welly]

Cutting the rubber tubes and looping them out is the only real answer, you just need a smaller-diameter tube section to fit inside the rubber hose and give you something to clamp down onto. Any solid tubing will do, maybe some nylon piping or steel tube even.

Best would be something like this with raised sections to stop the hose slipping off under pressure.



Firstly though it would be worth checking why the Matrix is leaking, it is a weak point if the system is under too high pressure through over-heating or head gasket failure the matrix can be one of the first parts to feel the strain.



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[steve_earwig]

No copper pipe? Weird, how do you plumb the cold around, plastic?

In the good old days there used to be variants without heaters (go back further and they were a bolt-on goody), the Avengers had a pipe that just went from the outlet to the inlet about 3" long.

I don't think there's going to be a "nice" way of doing this, maybe you could take both pipes off the engine (throttle body and thermostat housing I think I saw) and see if you can connect the two points with a length of hose of the appropriate diameter. Or remove the heater matrix and find some way of sealing it, bearing in mind that all it needs to do is not leak.

[gray]

Thanks guys for now until i can get to the capital a pair of vise grips will have to do!
Will have any problems with this? Does it feed anything else or just the heater matrix?


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[steve_earwig]

What have you done there then? I don't think you can just close off the pipes

[gray]

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