[Mgs] heater core leak advice

[Max Heim]

Just bypass the heater core with a loop of hose. It's the middle of summer,
and if it gets cold enough to want it, it would have just blown lukewarm,
anyway <g>.


on 7/14/07 9:32 AM, Aaron Whiteman at awhitema at panix.com wrote:

> Well, crap.
> 
> Here it is, one week from tomorrow and I leave for Petaluma.  Trip is
> all planned, I've figured out where I'm staying along the way, I've
> made arrangements to board the cat, etc...
> 
> I tried to take the car out to the local farm shop I've used on
> occasion to do maintenance and inspections.
> 
> So of course, there's a truck without wheels on the lift.  Undaunted,
> I did some tuning.  I managed to make the timing worse.  Runs fine,
> but now it runs hot.  Whoops, I'll try again when I'm not frustrated.
> 
> While I had the filters off the carbs, I happened to look up, and saw
> this:
> 
> http://www.panix.com/~awhitema/tmp/P1000071.jpg
> 
> Yup, wet green stuff leaking out of my heater.  That certainly
> explains the odor of coolant I've occasionally smelled in the past.
> I don't know how long it's looked like that, but it's a fairly new
> development.
> 
> Ugh.  I'm leaving in a week.  I don't have the time or energy to fix
> a heater core.  I *know* what that involves, and I'm not ready to
> take that on.
> 
> So, given that I'll be driving 2100 miles in 9 days, much of it on
> lonely roads in eastern Oregon, I don't think it's a good idea to
> pretend I didn't see the leak and just carry extra coolant.
> 
> So my options are now
>   * bypass it and hope I don't need the heater (remember, car has
> shown a propensity to run hot)
>   * run some of that radiator snake oil stuff
>   * take the Subaru instead
> 
> Advice?

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Max Heim
'66 MGB GHN3L76149
If you're near Mountain View, CA,
it's the primer red one with chrome wires