[Morgans] Morgan Heater cores

[John T. Blair]

At 10:55 AM 10/16/2018, you wrote:

 >Last winter I wanted to get my leaky radiator repaired and found 
that ALL of the
 >olde radiator shops in my area have died.  I ended up ordering a 
new aluminum
 >one from Mulfab in the UK.  Fine product, easily to deal with 
folks, fits perfectly
 >and cool better than my old one.  Alas expensive.

Richard,

It's supprising how much of the old skills are going away.  The newer 
radiators are
partially made of plastic.  So the old shops can't do much with them.  Then the
shops go out of business.  Bummer.

 >As to my Smith's heater, since I cannot find a shop to repair the old core I
 >looked around for a replacement.  It seems the heater was also used 
in Rovers
 >and there is a company on the west coast that makes new compatible cores for
 >$300.  Thought I would search a bit for a lower price.

 >Ideas?

Unforunately, no.  I'm not sure but I think that some other cars of 
that era, like the TR-3s, MGAs might have use similar heaters.  I 
remember a round heater in
my old TR-3s.  I went looking through Moss Motors on-line catalog and found a
round heater core for a Healey 100-4.  It was $800.  So your $300 for a Rover
core isn't bad.  Here's a core for a TR3 at $500:
https://mossmotors.com/heater-core-1

As a last resort, it seems to me that one of the aftermarket AC 
companies makes custom items.  I thought the company was in GA or 
FL.  Doing a google search
I see a couple of companies in TX.  So maybe that's where they 
are.  But it would
be worth a phone call to see if the can do custom work, if so, send 
them a picture
of your heater core and some measurements and see what they give you 
for a quote.

Here's a place list Morgan heater core replacements:

http://classicfordradiator.com/newheatercoresforbritishvehicles.aspx

http://classicfordradiator.com/morrisminormorganrangeroverroundheatercore.aspx

For Morris Minor, Rover, Morgans for $500


Let me know what you find!

John
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