There was no room for any buffering material in these clamps, and they look factory. I'm going to re-form them and use some heavy plastic as a buffer - probably from a fabric softner bottle that was emptied today. The plastic shouldn't deteriorate from oil. Of course, there shouldn't BE any oil leaks for a long time!
On 2/5/06, Marshall Booth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK Don wrote: > > I've finally gotten to the point where I'm moving the tranny from the > > bad engine to the new engine -- > > > > In removing the steel tranny cooler lines, I found that the clamps > > that hold them along the oil pan seem to have been clamped around the > > lines. There is no evidence of a rubber sleeve or anything else > > between the lines and the clamp. One of them is starting to wear into > > the line. Is this SOP for MB? I'm thinking of wrapping the steel line > > with Teflon pipe sealing tape (lots of it), or a strip cut out of a > > plastic bottle, or ??? > > Rubber buffers under the clamps are on ALL of my cars. They do > disintegrate with enough oil soaking and age. > > Marshall > -- -- OK Don, KD5NRO Norman, OK '90 300D 243K, Rattled '87 300SDL 290K, Limo Lite, or blue car '81 240D 173K, Gramps, or yellow car '78 450SLC 67K, brown car '97 Ply Grand Voyager 78K Van Go
