The right pair of pliers

There's got to be a special pair of pliers just for these kind of wire hose clamps. They are all over my motorcycle and for years I've been wrestling with using regular pliers and a crazy twist action to open it up all the way. And then it only works 20% of the time. There's got to be a better way.

I’m curious to see where this thread goes as I hate these style clamps too! The first thing I did was to take a screen shot of your clamp to see if I could find the correct “term” for this clamp. Google images called it a single wire spring clamp, or a constant tension clamp.



Then I tried to verify that by trying to buy that clamp. I figured McMaster Carr would have an accurate description. They were close to your clamp but not exactly



Lastly, I put the proper? Clamp name into the search with pliers after it. Again, not an exact match (I want to see the pliers operating the exact clamp you showed). So, some of the responses showed a clamp pliers assortment kit. If no one shows you (& me) the correct tool for this clamp, the assortment is what I would buy. But they are probably **** tools. But, then whichever **** tool works the best, buy a good one.

I bought a pair of these special pliers some 40 years ago, I don’t remember if they were KD or Lisle.
They had swivel pads on the tips of the jaws and catch to lock them closed while holding the hose clamp open.

I personally would not reuse those clamps. Cut them off and get a clamp you can get personal with. LOL
Zim

The advantage of the wire clamps is that they have the right amount of tightness. No guessing on how hard to turn the nut driver. Also, they eliminate the need to go back over clamps installed on new hose to tighten them a bit after the hose shrinks. But yeah, I don't like them either. I think some of them are installed at the factory when the sub assembly engine, trans, subframe is not in the car. Then, once in the car, they are at the wrong location to get pliers onto.

That's a modification to the original design of Corbin clamp. I would think that the same pliers would work sufficiently well with those as with the original Corbin clamps, but I've never had to mess with one of this style.

I use duck bill plier to squeeze the clamp then turn the plier 90* to open the clamp a bit more. Has worked well for me for years.

They only holding on some vent hoses on a bank of carbs for a Kawi ZRX. The trick is getting any kind of tool in there to open them enough to slip over the spiggot. I like idea of switching them out.