Thanks to all that replied.
Based on replies received to date, the concensus appears that it is fine as
far as performance of the cooling system is concerned. Several people
recommended either draining the heater core or filling up with anti-freeze
or rust inhibitor to prevent corrosion, which would otherwise occur
relatively rapidly.
Someone else suggested installing a shutoff valve in the line going to the
heater valve to prevent water making it there in the first place,
I think I'll just bypass the little critter since I already went to the
trouble of removing it.
Cheers
Mark
Mark Sinclair
To:
spitfires@autox.team.net
04/07/03 10:52 AM cc:
Subject: spitfire - heater
valve - bybass
Listers:
I'd like to bypass my leaking heater valve while I sort out a replacement.
Actually - I'd like to bypass the entire heater core for the summer.
Anyone foresee any problems with running a hose from the heater inlet to
outlet on the block?
I did imagine that it would be fine - but then I started wondering if
perhaps it would be a bad thing to have coolant running around an
unrestricted loop, possibly messing up the flow in the rest of the system.
Comments?
Thanks in advance.
Mark Sinclair
65 Spitfire
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