SS Coolant Pipes

RicoS · Samba Member Joined: December 02, 2006 Posts: 583

What is the consensus: stainless coolant pipes - good or bad?

shadetreetim · Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2014 6:15 pm Post subject:

Many post on this subject already. And many opinions on the good and bad of them. I lean towards the good, I put them on my van.
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Corwyn · Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2014 7:01 pm Post subject:

Good.

I think they are evolutionary.

If VW were to build these today, I think stainless would be their choice. Plastic was obviously a cost-cutting measure. I have an entire RMW stainless cooling system on board and will not worry about it for a very long time.
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vanonimous · Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2014 7:25 pm Post subject:

Do it! I got mine from Van Cafe. They were sort of pain to replace but in the end wort it every centimeter.
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GreggK · Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2014 8:32 pm Post subject:

Has anyone worked them into a Subaru conversion? Any modification needed?

ThankYouJerry · Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2014 9:17 pm Post subject:

Terry Kay · Banned Joined: June 22, 2003 Posts: 13331

The stainless pipes will eat your engine from the inside out with vengance--
Like a bottom feeding carp will eat the bottom of a pond clean.

I'm offering Pyrex full length pipes next month.

They will have no leaching properties on the aluminum forever.

Morta.
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drossen · Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2014 10:59 pm Post subject:

Terry Kay · Banned Joined: June 22, 2003 Posts: 13331

Do a subject serach--you'll find out that the dooms day prepper's claim to fame is on the self destruction Stainless pipes.

I defended the stainless pipes--the nay sayer's are all metalurigal engineer's here obviously and know better than anyone on the planet.

I just bumped my stainless pipes to pyrex--blew right past aluminum.
I want something that nothing will touch--ever.

So, that's the end of the self destruction to engine aluminum conversation, and no back yard mo-jo can pound them out on hs foot operated hydraulic press in his straw hut in Bora Bora, or Pitcaran Island.
I'll have this Vanagon update that I created back on my own again---back prior to the opportunist barrcuda's outsourcing them to Tiawan, Bombay, China, Serria Leone, Poland, or other geographic points of slave labor--and have the added benifit of never causing any electroletical engine corrosion, be it real or imaginary, factual or fictional.
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drossen · Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2014 11:26 pm Post subject:

Are you referring to galvanizing of the engine / components from steel pipes? I talked to several vendors who sell SS pipes including RMW who sells both aluminum and SS and no one said they had reports of galvanizing.

Edit: TK are you just being sarcastic? What's the point of such a confusing first post and follow up to someones honest question.

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=536861&highlight=galvinizing

You say at the end of this thread it isn't a problem. Unless you were being sarcastic there as well.

No one has any problems with it unless you have ancient coolant.

bmdhacks · Samba Member Joined: June 15, 2013 Posts: 60

He's joking about having glass coolant pipes.
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SCM · Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2014 11:52 am Post subject:

nacradriver · Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2014 11:57 am Post subject:

kalispell365 · Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2014 12:11 pm Post subject:

And Terrys pipes will fit a Subaru conversion properly. I own his and think his fit is the most correct/ like the originals.
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insyncro · Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2014 12:13 pm Post subject:

Pyrex

TK rules and has a sense of humor that I wish more had and could even understand around here.

I own and have installed TK's stainless pipes, RMW's and the VW version imported from Europe.
All excellent quality and my engines are just fine.
FYI, one, my first EG33 conversion has over 100,000 miles on it in the Vanagon and at the last coolant swap...every year BTW, no corrosion was seen on the interior of the pipes, no head gasket issues or radiator issues.
Just smooth sailing Exclamation

Zeitgeist 13 · Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2014 2:14 pm Post subject:

My original plastic pipes made it over 200k and nearly 30 years.

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shadetreetim · Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2014 2:59 pm Post subject:

big swifty · Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2014 3:48 pm Post subject:

Is that BPA-free plastic? Otherwise those SS pipes will also cause cancer.
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Jake de Villiers · Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2014 4:00 pm Post subject:

squeegee_boy · Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2014 6:03 pm Post subject:

My wife's van's OEM pipes made it for 24 years and ~200k km. And I discovered 30 minutes ago that the ends have mostly backed out.

So stainless pipes are going in tomorrow Smile

Robyn
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