Quote Originally Posted by BillsGU View Post
The hose split along almost its entire length and as it happened just as I was entering the town I coasted into the garage and the mechanic took over from there. Lucky it happened where it did or I would have had to muck about with it to get it going, or use my RACV total care to come to the rescue.
Just sayin' for future issues or for others...

Any hose same dia will do, you can even chop up the 'outlet' hose if needs be
Thats also why I carry a couple of inches of offcuts in my emergency kit

This new fangled idea where the water circulates continuously you need to block inlet and return

Old school was even easier, just loop the pipes or turn off the heater tap you only had to block the return.
An EH Holden I had went for months with a whittled down piece of gum tree branch as a bung when the heater core split.