papaindigo wrote:
I cannot speak to how many folks have had this failure but I know stoutdog has, he discovered his when swapping the OEM tstat for kap's upgrade only because he took this hose off for access. I've seen enough chat to add this to the things I check at every oil change though. Given the location of the failure and how invisible it is under normal circumstances and the serious downside of direct injection into the turbo of totally unfiltered outside air or water/mud/dust for off roaders it's an very easy failure to overlook and a potential straight line to catastrophic turbo and/or engine failure. My personal bet is there are a bunch of folks driving with a failed hose they simply cannot see.
On that basis, Sir Sam if you have a direct Samco contact I'd think it would be worth at least asking the question is a silicone replacement feasible and roughly what would be the per unit cost based on the assumption they want to make at least some money on the deal.
I agree, I think it's plenty likely there are other people out there with this failure and they didn't know it, heck I didn't know it untill I got around to changing my timing belt, and in the process moved around enough stuff to realize it was busted.
More than that, when I called around to dealers in the area it turned out that three of them had it in stock, so there is enough demand for this part that its being stocked by dealers, even for the relatively low numbers of CRDs out there.
(if someone else had started this thread a week ago I would have voted "NO")
The only problem with Samco is that they need to feel like there is enough interest to justify their R&D for it. A few years back(man how long ago was that?) when my hoses failed enough other people had it fail that there was interest. I think in a day or two we were able to get enough people to show their interest to samco based on the number of failures that they saw the potential. So far we really only have two documented failures here, so untill we can show more proof of this failure I will not approach them just yet.
So guys, maybe this weekend would be a good time to do some "spring cleaning" check your MAPs, check your fuel filters, check your air filters, and then while your in there to check the air filter give this little guy a checking, its two hose clamps and then it comes off.
This is the type of failure that you don't know until you actually pull it.
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