Water Leak Advice

[Jules]

Originally Posted by SD1too

You’re not paying attention Jules. The whole point of my contribution to this thread was to draw attention to the correct positioning of the clips on the straight pipe.

Jules; don’t assume that because you haven’t achieved it, no one else can. I repeat that I have never broken any of my three plastic parts except for the curved pipe on the very first attempt. I quickly learnt from my mistake.

Simon

Wrong again Simon!!


Simon you don't seem to grasp statistics.

I do achieve removing stats without damage..........10% of the time.
I don't break them on purpose you know as it adds an hour to the job removing the bits of plastic stub out

I'll give you an example:

50 KV6 stats changed in 2017.
5 of them didn't crack on removal.
Yours Simon would be one of those 5 cases.

However all 50 leaking sets went in the bin because I didn't want to risk running a "Simon" experiment on customers cars to see how many "might" survive long term!

And might I suggest the original elbow piece you cracked and the 2nd one you didn't is simply down to the 2nd one being in situ for far less time (am I correct?) thereby the plastic won't have had time to become brittle and the O ring was probably still looking ok too
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Oh and re the four O rings.
Some come out well squashed while others come out looking still quite new.
MGR used different compound O rings just like they did in the M47 stat.

To date we've not seen any melted KV6 O rings except the Chinese batch our well known independent trader on here sold.
(they started out purple and turned red within 3 months)


Sorry for lack of photo evidence.
I could have taken 100's of shots over the years but I never thought twice about it.

However I still have an old computer from 2006 in the loft.
It will have a few evidence shots on there when I was initially marketing my services.

However the more photos I come up with the weaker some of your theories become. 🤣