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Hi Phil

Heat shrink to wrap things like split rubber hose connectors is a good idea. I'll definitely remember that for next time. I often use shrink for electrical connections and the odd repair, keeping a good assortment handy, also buying it in full lengths. Only reason I probably didn't think to use it under the hood on such types of rubber connectors was partly because I consider this a temp bandaid fix and partly because I don't like using flame under the hood any more than I need to, normally using a barbecue lighter to shrink them unless I'm doing a bunch and want to drag my heat gun out (meaning a longer trip back to my workshop, which is unfortunately not adjacent to my garage area in this house).

BTW, Brickboard server has crashed twice in the past few days. Sometimes Jarrod is automatically notified and restarts the system. Sometimes I need to remind him when I eventually notice the outage is continuing more than a few hours. He's seemingly away on a bit of vacation at the moment and it took him a couple of tries to restart it this time.