Never before in the field of human endeavour has so little been achieved in so much time by just one man.
Today I replaced a 3 inch length of 5/16" hose on my turbo watercooling return line.
It took four farken hours go to woah; I feel like a retard.
I noticed a significant drop in the rad recovery bottle a few days ago, and when I went looking; I found coolant all over the passengers side steering rack boot. Turbo is directly above this area; great!
Looked around, no real signs of failed hoses but coolant stains on the hard line, hmmm...
After removing the hose, it looks like the hose is delaminated internally due to the radiant heat of the exh manifold, and forcing coolant up the reinforcing braiding and out the cut ends of the hose.
Then did a cooling system flush and new coolant.
As per protocol; thanks go to Scotty for the cooling system mod, which make bleeding the cooling system a breeze.
Good job Scotty.