Once again, my ire is raised by the unbelievable placement and construction of the Heater Water Control Valve on the MGB. What kind of thinking was it that placed a part prone to failure that contain
I took an old, dead, heater valve (like mostr, I had more than one!!). I cut off the base and drilled and tapped a hole in it - enlargening the original water port. nto it I screwed a short nipple (1
When I bought it, my GT had an alternate rig that worked well. Being a semi-stickler for originality, I reverted to the OEM type that, in truth, does not work as well. Attached to the block where th
Actually I always thought this was extremely clever. If the thing starts leaking it will drip on the distributor causing a misfire. The misfire will make you pull off the road before enough coolant l
Yes, I was thinking of the very hardware-store-looking heater valves in TR-3s and other more primitive LBCs. You have to open the hood to adjust it, but you'd definitely have a higher-flow, more fool
--WebTV-Mail-15522-3528 I agree a good valve does not leak and will last for years. But I still recall something which happened to me years ago when I was a much younger and far less experienced MG o
This type of leaking is typical Britsh. I had a '66 Ford Cortina MK1 1500 once. Every week another cooling line was starting to leak. Stupid thing was the water always was spraying onto the ignition,
Hello Norm, I got a generic one from an auto parts store, I don't know what it was from, if your lucky they will just let you go in the back and open boxes until you find one. Anyway, if you take the