Hose chafing- A tip for new drivers

It works. And while it will eventually wear through. It will be years.

 

Hose protection.

 

Sounds good. Just sucks to have a hose go bad from something that could be avoided regardless of how many years it takes. I'll give it a shot though!

 

Ive got peices of heater hose on the hydraulic lines to to the roll off on the R model. They will eventually wear out too, but they wear out before the hydraulic line does. I'd rather replace the peices of heater hose when i notice VS have a hydraulic line blow on a site picking up a bin...

 

Indeed! I'll probably use some of these to keep each hose separated as much as possible and whatever touches the frame etc will get the heater hose treatment.||

https://www.finditparts.com/product...muu-K4864602&gclid=CKiDg_Cyk9ICFZRXDQodUakF4Q

 

I always back up the factory hose clamps with those heavy black zip ties to hold the bundles tight.

And yes heater hose is the cat ###!

 

@MACK E-6 Had a thread on this not to long ago, with a picture.

Here it is:
https://www.thetruckersreport.com/t...ds/hose-chafing-a-tip-for-new-drivers.332778/

I agree with @strollinruss, this is exactly the way I do all my hoses that are rubbing on each other, held together with zip ties. If you have a couple hoses that have worn on each other remember to put that extra heater hose on both of them so that it wears on the patch itself.

 

Thanks. The response about the polyurethane was an interesting one as well.

 

These guys are telling you right about heater hoses. I've got "split heater hose" protecting wires, a/c lines, air lines all inside my engine well and underneath the truck too. Most of them I put there 6 or 7 years ago and none of them have needed replacing yet. I'll snap a few pics and post up tomorrow. Zip ties and heater hose is absolutely the cat's ### to prevent chaffing....

 

Brake hoses too - I hunted around but wound up buying them from a TA - 1/2 inch separators, and I thought at the time - heater hose would also work -

It's 3/4 inch, right?