VE heater hose slow leak

[S.D.M.F]

Hi.

I found a small amount of coolant weeping at the quick connect connectors on the heater hoses.

The area circled.

Can these connectors just be cut out and deleted and the hoses joined?
I thought maybe sleeve internally with some short lengths of copper tube and hose clamps on each end.

Any thoughts or ideas?

Thanks.

 

[stirringaxe]

This is an age old problem on VE. From memory they just replaced the joints & used standard hose clamps to fix mine. It wasn't expensive to fix either.

 

[Longman]

Yeah, a lot of mechanics replace them with brass hose joiners. These are a dumb design and always end up leaking.

 

[S.D.M.F]

Thanks for the replies.
Any idea of the internal diameter of the hoses?
Does 5/8" sound right? That way I can have the brass joiners and clamps ready when I cut the leaky fu*kers outs.