BonzoHansen
12-03-2006, 10:21 PM
So, since Pampered makes fun of the broken coolant line in my wife's Pilot every time we eat chicken fried steak, I thought I'd post this.
I decided to take one more look before I hand $600+ over to the dealer to fix the coolant line.
Damage - I cut this section of the pipe out. Not like I could make it worse.
http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/5430/img0165aoo6.th.jpg (http://img141.imageshack.us/my.php?image=img0165aoo6.jpg)
It's a hair bigger than 5/8" line, so I tried to see if I could flare it.
http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/5195/img0170amu8.th.jpg (http://img152.imageshack.us/my.php?image=img0170amu8.jpg)
I could, but you can see how it was squished a bit in the clamp:
http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/5535/img0171att5.th.jpg (http://img143.imageshack.us/my.php?image=img0171att5.jpg)
I thought if I could flare it, I could put a nut on it and heater hose adapters (and I'm assuming I can get such an adapter). But my flare tool sucks, so I'd never be able to do it with the lines in the car. I was looking at hydraulic flare tools, but none seem to go to 5/8" (yes, I figured I'd rather spend $300 on a cool new tool I'd rarely use than give $$ to Honda). If they were easy to take out, I'd just fix it right. :)
So, I am making an appt with Honda this week barring someone here having some great answer.
I decided to take one more look before I hand $600+ over to the dealer to fix the coolant line.
Damage - I cut this section of the pipe out. Not like I could make it worse.
http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/5430/img0165aoo6.th.jpg (http://img141.imageshack.us/my.php?image=img0165aoo6.jpg)
It's a hair bigger than 5/8" line, so I tried to see if I could flare it.
http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/5195/img0170amu8.th.jpg (http://img152.imageshack.us/my.php?image=img0170amu8.jpg)
I could, but you can see how it was squished a bit in the clamp:
http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/5535/img0171att5.th.jpg (http://img143.imageshack.us/my.php?image=img0171att5.jpg)
I thought if I could flare it, I could put a nut on it and heater hose adapters (and I'm assuming I can get such an adapter). But my flare tool sucks, so I'd never be able to do it with the lines in the car. I was looking at hydraulic flare tools, but none seem to go to 5/8" (yes, I figured I'd rather spend $300 on a cool new tool I'd rarely use than give $$ to Honda). If they were easy to take out, I'd just fix it right. :)
So, I am making an appt with Honda this week barring someone here having some great answer.