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BMW Radiator hoses won't come off! Help!

  • 11-06-2011 12:50PM
    #1
    mondeo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,689 ✭✭✭


    I'm outside changing the rad in my partners 318i, however I cannot free the radiator hoses no matter what I do? There is quick release metal clips that you pull out which is suppose to enable you to pull the hoses of the rad. I pulled the clips out no problem however for love nor money I cannot get these little b@stards off :(

    What am I doing wrong here?

    Thanks

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Comments

  • #2
    guil
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,601 ✭✭✭✭guil


    pull harder and try lever it a bit with a large flat head screwdriver at the joint


  • #3
    mondeo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,689 ✭✭✭mondeo


    guil wrote: »
    pull harder and try lever it a bit with a large flat head screwdriver at the joint

    Thats what I have been doing the past hour. At most it's rocking at the joint but wont free itself to slide it off.


  • #4
    Technoprisoner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,314 ✭✭✭Technoprisoner


    be carefull when bleeding..the bleed nipple tends to break on them


  • #5
    ianobrien
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,755 ✭✭✭ianobrien


    Did you try to turn the pipe on the outlet? That usually breaks the adhesion and it can be worked off quite easily after that.


  • #6
    shedweller
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,029 ✭✭✭shedweller


    ianobrien wrote: »
    Did you try to turn the pipe on the outlet? That usually breaks the adhesion and it can be worked off quite easily after that.
    That works well and i find if it doesn't then i push AND twist the pipe, as if putting it on. This widens the hose, breaking said adhesion. Then the drops of coolant still in the pipe will fill the join, lubricating the hose and off she pops!:)

    Just like that!


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  • #7
    mondeo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,689 ✭✭✭mondeo


    I can tell you somthing, changing the radiator in this car was a nightmare! I did eventually get both upper and lower hoses free with brute force and prayer.

    The thing thats really irritated me was the radiator I bought was a spurious one, which is all well and good and looked identical to the one which came out of the car. However it would not slot into the radiator support mounts properly as it was ever so slightly too big. I did get it in but it's not 100% but f@ck all I can do about it. It's secured and won't fall out anyways, I checked and double checked so it's grand! First time in my life I ever had trouble with a spurious part:(. Fookn pig of a car to work on!


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