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I had Pi-Thon clamps on my Z back in the day and what a PITA it was to work on the car with those things.
Edit: Found some old pics. Just looking at these clamps makes my skin crawl. They scratched easily when using the supplied wrenches and they were difficult to get torqued and a pain in the butt to remove. I don't think I would install these if I were sponsored by Pi-thon.
I put on a set of these intake locks for a guy who I believe got them from you. It was a pain in the a**. The wrenches were worthless. I spent a lot of time modifying the wrenches with a Dremel to make them work. Even then, I had to cover them with faux suede to keep them from scratching the locks.
I put on a set of these intake locks for a guy who I believe got them from you. It was a pain in the a**.
Agreed. Now that I recall, the only lock that didn't seal up properly was the PCV one. I had to add some duct tape to the tube itself to increase the diameter so the clamp would torque down on it enough...
he must have reposted the add, i see them all for sale still, just not sure that he would have enough of one colour to do a proper replacement and i also don't see any wrenches nor does he say he has any included, might be a tad hard to put on without those bad boys ha... unless there's another way to install them without them?
did some more research, and here are the sizes you will need depending on the hose setup you have in your bay, the hose clamps on ebay have different numbers then the ones in these charts, so keep an eye out on the sizeing so you don't purchase and screw yourself ha.... ALSO you may notice on the numbers that it will say for ex 1A-04A, all the A at the end means is the fitting is a HEX style and you should be able to use regular wrenches to install, if it says 1A-04 you will need the special pi-thon wrenches to install and use your fittings properly... just a few things to look for if your shopping around.
through Mapleleaf (Terry @ Zeetoyz), he was saying that the son of the previous owner of Pi-thon is going to start producing same design of hose clamp but under a different company/name, and should be ready for sale in Febuary.
01-06-2012, 08:23 AM
