Re: Separating heater hose from coolant fitting - help! (atomicalex)

The hoses often bind themselves to the fittings after a while so you need to separate the rubber from the metal. Outside of brute force, which may cause some damage, I try to use a thin screwdriver blade or something similiar and work my way around the fitting until it breaks loose. You might end up having to replace the hose if it's too badly stuck, but usually, once you can free up a small part of the circumferance, the rest will come easier. Good luck.

 

Re: Separating heater hose from coolant fitting - help! (sschragger)

Thanks, but this bugger has a plastic fitting on the end! Plague and misery. I hoped to get the blasted fitting out and off to the dealer for a replacement and back in today, but grrr! can't get it apart. Also, much to my dismay, the fitting looks kifferent than the ones I have seen in other Passats and in the parts CD or Bentley. That is the main reasone I want to have it with me when I go in.

 

Re: Separating heater hose from coolant fitting - help! (atomicalex)

Have you tried a gentle twisting action with some channel locks or such to break any friction bond the hose may have with the mating surface?

 

Re: Separating heater hose from coolant fitting - help! (atomicalex)

If there is any space to push the hose further up onto the nozzle, I've found this sometimes helps break the bond. Otherwise, find some "man torque" (no offense

).

 

Re: Separating heater hose from coolant fitting - help! (Electron Man)

Do you have anything with which to warm the fitting - maybe a hair dryer and a long extension cord. The heating may help to soften the sticking areas enough to make it easier to pull apart.

 

Re: Separating heater hose from coolant fitting - help! (rtenke)

Electron man has it just about right.

You may not be able to be nice to it like you want to. Twisting HARD while pushing it more "on" seems to work best.

I usually have to get a little ugly on them, if you know what I mean.....

<![CDATA[Electron man has it just about right.

You may not be able to be nice to it like you want to. Twisting HARD while pushing it more "on" seems to work best.

I usually have to get a little ugly on them, if you know what I mean.....

[Modified by Sharky, 6:13 PM 3/4/2003]

 

Re: Separating heater hose from coolant fitting - help! (Sharky)

I can wiggle it, but it seems to be caught, as if the two hard plastic parts are still hooked together. I have a fitting that has the heater hose on the bottom, which is not the part the parts guy showed me.

I will get nastier with it tomorrow morning.

Oh, and boy, do I need a new valve cover gasket. It looks like I have needed one for about 20K!