On my wife's 1983 300D wagon project I'm slowly coming close to having it on the road.

The car was in bits when I got it and I've recently discovered that I don't have any transmission cooler lines. I ordered the flex lines, but couldn't find the hard ones.

It's been quite cold recently and I've come back with some frostbite the last two times I went to the PnP. So I know that I could get them rather cheaply there, but really really don't feel like crawling around in frozen mud within the next two months.

I recently made oil cooler lines with AN fittings and SS braided hose for my 300D and this car. So I'm wondering, is there a downside besides price to fabricating transmission cooler hoses in the same way?

__________________
Onus probandi incumbit ei qui dicit, non ei qui negat

I recondition w123/w126/w124/w140/r107/r129/ steering boxes!


1984 300D "Elsa" odo reset 6/2011 147k
1983 300TD "Mitzi" ~268k OM603 powered
1995 E300 "Adelheid" 262k [Sold]