When I stripped my zed a part of the upper steering tube was damaged so I simply cut it.

 

Never noting that the rubber pipe is captive to the main pipe I now need a replacement.

 

Below is a pic of the damaged pipe which is now about three inches too short to reach the pas pot :

 

 

 

 

The question is - how can I make a repair of this pipe ?

 

Can I cut the top of the metal and put a jubilee on and replace the top rubber part ?

 

Can I replace the full pipe with rubber ?

 

Whats the reason for the big elaborate route of the pipe rather than just going direct ?

 

Any help on this would be great.

 

Cheers

The easy route would be to put a new rubber pipe in to the below area; tie wrap it to the sway bar

and then back up into the pas pot !

 

The consensus is that this routing acts as a 'cooler'.

 

You can replace the entire route with a small square conventional cooler if you are worried, I have seen it done.

Not long after I posted this I was thinking the same thing.

 

so an after market cooler should do the trick and just run rubber hoses both ends.

 

see a few jaguar pas coolers that could do the trick.

I've seen on the Aus site several guys delete that length of metal pipe and run short lengths of rubber hose without a cooler and have no problems

That's what I was thinking of doing !

 

 

Does anyone know the diameter of hose and type required to replace this pipe ?

 

I've seen on the Aus site several guys delete that length of metal pipe and run short lengths of rubber hose without a cooler and have no problems

Sorry thought you said you were going to use a cooler?

 

I've used high pressure fuel line on mine, I can give you the I.D this afternoon when I go to the workshop

Yeh, but if i can get away with not using a cooler i will !

 

Seen a few coolers but there fairly large and the nice small ones are too expensive.

Just checked and I've used 7/8" (22mm) high pressure oil and fuel hose from the pot to the rack :cool3: