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Old 03-19-2012, 10:59 PM   #16 (permalink)
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This modern hose has quite the generous wall thickness and several concentric layers of reinforcement. The I.D. is so very small that it doesn't take much external crimping deflection to close it off. Before I cut it up I sat there examining it and would never have guessed that bracket was bearing down on that hose enough to crimp it shut- it simply didn't appear to be that bad.

I've messed around with so many old '60s VWs over the years and can't count them all. I don't recall having a bad hose on any of them but I don't doubt that it happened.
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