Googling, I think you're talking about a single wire spring clamp. I have not seen any of those on my truck. Spring clamps are typically the band type. I re-use them. However, what I've found on the steering system, other than the crimped fittings, has been Oetiker clamps.
Yes, this is true. The "Corbin clamp" started out on tractors, heavy equipment and then Chrysler. These where shaped using round spring wire and then in the late 1980s, early 1990s, these clamps where formed from flat spring steel stock.
GM, import and other used them on every hose that had low and medium high pressure, like 60 PSI max on fuel filters. Later, the clamp was "Double Wrapped" with two rows of spring steel and had specs to 90 PSI.
The advantage for the manufacture is these came in boxes with flat "C" shaped clips, holding them in the open position. The simply slid the clamp onto the hose, positioned the hose onto the fitting, slid the clamp where it belonged then used a pair of pliers to remove the holding clip that allowed the spring clamp to "Snap" into place. While both large as radiator hoses and as small as fuel line.
I had the opportunity for me, was to see the manufacturing plants, one for Oldsmobile in KC, John Deere near the Quad Citys in Iowa, then the Jainsville plant GM truck plant. This occurred during the second week of July as the UAW shuts the plants down, the pipe fitters, engineers, parts suppliers came to change the plant over for the next model year or a new drivetrain and other items. They come back to work two weeks later and start slowly to teach the workers on the new stuff while checking for fit, finish, problems that lead to certain changes, etc.
This is why the production date, showing #8 for August, meant it was the next years model. They had gravity feed boxes on tracks, the feed sub-assemblies or single parts being assembled into larger components, but watching the corbin clamps (The tote was marked "Corbin Clamps" the supplier, date code and part number) came to the workers and I saw how easy it was for them to install.
Certain jobs are very repetitive and become boring and ours did as well, but the contract labor group was required to meet twice each year somewhere and we where vocal about the location. Almost everyone there want to go where the vehicles where made. Are request was granted most times, but we where like kids in a candy store. There are things from "Hydrogen Fuel-Cell 5 passenger Mini vans" running all 3-phase 120 volt pan-cake motors called pancake motors that had 3 orange cables running to each. Rear drive, front drive or all wheel drive ass the engineers tried to reach over 70% efficiency of fuel to output ratio, but where at 68%. Soon, four of these research facilities where shut down and the project mothballed I guess.
Refueling was not an issue as a Swedish company had plug & play hydrogen trailers that required water, electricity and communicate with the gas stations register using an RF signal...as most do now. Yep, they are not hard-wired from pump to register now. This caused a TSB with the 2004 Vette with keyless start dealing with RF interference and a not start.
But there are many clamps on the market and use the ones that you have available.
Just seen a lot.
Retired ASE Master Tech / Ex ACDelco MASM
