D9'ers - Help prevent your a/c pipes corroding

Post by **Welly** » Wed Jun 13, 2007 11:24 am

Further to Puggy's unfortunate a/c pipe failure (seen here in green)......

I thought I would look at mine and see if there was anything I could do to help prevent this happening.

I have spoken to my a/c man and he has tried several things over the years including copper grease! Apparently water and road salts etc become trapped between the rubber lined clip and the ali tubing and coupled with a bit of vibration they all conspire to corrode the tubing at the clip position.

The key to help prevent this is to repell water and provide a protective film on the ali tube.

So I set about doing this simple exercise:

I sprayed some WD40 silicone stuff directly and liberally onto the rubber.

A close up of the soaked rubbers, this should help repell any corrosives

I reckon if you do this, say, once a month then the pipe should never corrode here and you will save yourself some dollas.

Fin.

xplosiv · Post by **xplosiv** » Wed Jun 13, 2007 11:46 am

Hi,

LOL welton, i think you may have stated a new 'see what random food item you can get in shoot of any car pictures'

The beans can gave me a laugh.

Andy

mbell666 · Post by **mbell666** » Wed Jun 13, 2007 11:58 am

Nice tip (and beans!). Can't see your pipes corroding with how clean your engine bay is thou!

Really should see about getting my AC fixed.

puggy · Post by **puggy** » Wed Jun 13, 2007 12:43 pm

very good welly .. a sound tip

does the car do anymore mpg's now you have swapped
from custard to beans

Post by **Welly** » Wed Jun 13, 2007 2:04 pm

A clean engine bay you say?

I saw Top Gear recently and James May said he was "giving it the beans" so I thought I would try it out, why not?. I'll just need to wait till the Custard's finished though

xplosiv · Post by **xplosiv** » Wed Jun 13, 2007 2:07 pm

Hi,

welton did you get it steam cleaned, if not how the hell do you clean it up like that (give it some beans)

Andy

Post by **Welly** » Wed Jun 13, 2007 2:17 pm

No it's not been steam cleaned actually. I have been 'detailing' it every now and then when I get bored.

The engine bay was just dusty and dirty when I bought it, but luckily no oil anywhere.

Generally you need to go round everywhere with an old toweling damp cloth quite a few times and then I use AutoGlym Bumper Care on EVERYTHING, the engine cover, all the plastics and the hoses.

Eventually after a few goes it gets cleaner and cleaner until it stays pretty good.

It helps if you wipe the electrical connectors and hose clips etc to give it a new look.

neildavies · Post by **neildavies** » Wed Jun 13, 2007 3:45 pm

ooooo, not a heinz man (or tesco value beans like me)

anyway, some sound advice there, I'll be out there sorting that out on the weekend.

prevention is better than cure as they.

Also, I saw the b***ard of a job it is to replace those pipes on puggy's very car on the weekend.

puggy · Post by **puggy** » Wed Jun 13, 2007 9:35 pm

Impressed with how clean your engine is welly

you say you do a little bit
whenever your bored

did you know masturbation is another way to occupy
your bored hands before you polish it away

Post by **Welly** » Wed Jun 13, 2007 9:47 pm

I meant bored AFTER stretching the monkey

puggy · Post by **puggy** » Wed Jun 13, 2007 10:12 pm

Ah i see Welly ... yes very understandable that you were bored ... think your
premature ejaculation problem could be the cause ... everything over so quickly
you bound to have time on your hands

Post by **Welly** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 11:53 am

But since when was PE a problem when choking the chicken?

Besides, those free previews only usually last 60 seconds

neildavies · Post by **neildavies** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 12:54 pm

puggy wrote:everything over so quickly
you bound to have time on your hands

As long as it's just time!

puggy · Post by **puggy** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 7:04 pm

Welton wrote:But since when was PE a problem when choking the chicken?

Besides, those free previews only usually last 60 seconds

P*ssing myself laughing at that one