Quote Originally Posted by the evil twin View Post
Uummm... why didn't you just cut out an inch or two of 'unsplit' hose and plug it?
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.