[Boog]

Hey Branson bud. Sinister is correct about the diaphram. It is a vacumn modulator and it senses engine load by vacumn to shift up. The cooling lines were probably bent up and crimped so someone just went the easy route and used rubber hose. They will work ok. May seep some fluid but will work. I also would find a good set of metal lines to replace them when I could. The freeze plugs behind the engine mount, now that's a little tougher. They are hammered in place so you'll need room to swing a hammer to knock the old ones out and put in new ones. The engine most likely has to be raised. Something to think about is if one of them is leaking the others are most likely in the same shape or near it. I would suggest the engine needs to come out to replace them all at the same time and be done with it. Maybe one of the guys has a better fix.