Oh yeah, that happened too. When I was working on it yesterday, I had to dry
off the inside of the cap, and I sprayed WD40 inside the distributor since I
didn't feel like disassembling it.
In this case it didn't matter if the valve was in the open or closed
position -- it was leaking to the exterior either way. When it started
leaking it was nominally closed.
on 11/8/08 6:36 PM, Ron Engelhardt at hardt@sonic.net wrote:
> When mine started leaking, it leaked all over the distributor and the
> car started running really funky. I was able to turn the heater valve
> off to stop it. Heh, heater wasn't doing a whole lot anyway!
>
> Ron
> 58 MGA
>
> Simon Matthews wrote:
>
>> Max,
>>
>> When I had a heater valve start leaking, I was able to get home (just
>> a few miles for me) by removing the radiator cap. The heater valve was
>> only leaking under pressure and removing the pressure stopped the
>> leak!
>>
>> Regards,
>> Simon
--
Max Heim
'66 MGB GHN3L76149
If you're near Mountain View, CA,
it's the primer red one with chrome wires
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