PAS cooler pipe

[Bowie69]

Guys, anyone got one of the PAA cooler pipes that run in front of the radiator? 7A engined car, but think they are the same across S2/RS2.

Believe the part number is: 893422886, and looks like this:

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I managed to nick mine pulling the radiator out today, and now it leaks


Thanks


Peter.

[newsh]

Unicorn poo ?

[Bowie69]

Perhaps

[Bowie69]

Perhaps it will be copper pipe from now on....

[bertman]

I have one for sale

[jeffstoo]

I had my radiator out the other day , lent on the same pipe and it broke away completely from the end with the 90 bend. I silver soldered it back together and so far so good. If you only have a few pin holes I would give the solder a try.

[K Simmonds]

I'm sure I have few of these, let me know if your interested and I'll find them and take some pic's.

[Bowie69]

Mark has gone one on the way, thanks to everyone for responses -seems like the unicorn maybe rather loose bowels at the moment!

[YELL MAN]

Mine is knackered too, but the car is off the road getting a rebuild. Has anyone simply replaced it with a small oil cooler? or would that be a bad idea?

[Bowie69]

I lnow some have just replaced with piece of copper pipe, depending on your climate, you may have no problem with that....

[SteveH]

I would have thought brazing would be the easiest fix for this. The pipe does cool the PAS pump fluid, so a small cooler would be a good replacement.

[Bowie69]

Yeah when I have non-leaky one here and I'm back on the road it's certainly something I will look at.

[bluequattro]

I’ve one from a 7a
also broke one in the past. Don’t seem very sturdy
could one of the later ones be modified to fit?
they fit in front of the radiator on a v6 so would have to consider best location on an s2.

[Bowie69]

Thanks bluequattro , got one on the way as above, but yes, seem fragile.

On a closer look today, the curved end is brazed (or something, it has corroded slightly green) to the corrugated piece, and that's where it fractured, so I didn't nick it,
but just cracked the end off.....

Doh

Something with TIG skills should be able to fix it.