[Healeys] Frustrated - coolant leak at drain tap

[john spaur]

Rich,

I found one at ACE Hardware a few years back. It was in a box of 
assorted springs but you had to buy the whole package and there is no 
guarantee that what you want will be in it.

John

At 06:30 PM 2/16/2008 -0500, Rich C wrote:
>Hello all,
>
>Further to the coolant drain tap leak, I have an original drain tap here
>that would be fine if the little tension spring at the end (that maintains
>the required tension to keep the tapered male barrel tight into the female
>tap body) wasn't rotted away. I've been looking for a small steel tension
>spring to replace it with no luck so far. It's this tension spring that
>keeps these assemblies from leakiong.
>Any suggestions?
>
>Rich Chrysler