Easy way to remove a cinch/crimp hose clamp ??

[Stig / Major Tom]

Is there an easier way to remove one of these cinch, or crimp, hose clamps. Thing looks like a permanent ("one-time") clamp!
This breather hose is attached with the same type clamp to the valve cover - and there is no room to do a valve lash check with the valve cover hanging about on that hose.
This short hose had to be removed in order to move the valve cover out of the away....and it was a bugger to get it cut off down in there with some side cutters.

Would there have been an easier way to unfasten it? The manner the hose is fastened on each end looks like it is never to come off?

Stig

[CROSSBOLT]

Those things are dirt cheap....for the manufacturer. Replace with small screw clamps, Ideal is a good, stainless brand. Cut 'em off any way you can!

[Stig / Major Tom]

Those things are dirt cheap....for the manufacturer. Replace with small screw clamps, Ideal is a good, stainless brand. Cut 'em off any way you can!

This clamp was the most time consuming and hardest part of the whole valve adjustment process! As Rose-Anna Danna used to say, "It's always somethin' !"
Stig

[de dee]

  if you can see the end sticking out stick a flat screw driver there and tap with a hammer, it pops off then pull with a plyers

[Stig / Major Tom]

  if you can see the end sticking out stick a flat screw driver there and tap with a hammer, it pops off then pull with a plyers

Thanks de dee, I couldn't get too frisky because it was attached to plastic.
Stig