[Morgans] Morgan Heater cores

Tue Oct 16 14:44:57 MDT 2018

Mine died years ago.  I found a small accessory type heater from J.C. Whitney or the like, a square box with a two speed blower that still fits under the dash and attached the Smith's front panel with the opening doors to it with some clips.  From what you can see it looks like the original heater and actually throws out some heat with a two speed fan and a real core.Steve

      From: John T. Blair <jblair1948 at cox.net>
 To: Richard Cooperman <rcooperman at aol.com>; morgans at autox.team.net 
 Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2018 4:15 PM
 Subject: [Morgans] Morgan Heater cores

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

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

Richard,

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

>As to my Smith's heater, since I cannot find a shop to repair the oldcore I
>looked around for a replacement.  It seems the heater was alsoused in Rovers 
>and there is a company on the west coast that makes new compatiblecores 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 ofthat era, like the TR-3s, MGAs might have use similar heaters.  Iremember a round heater in
my old TR-3s.  I went looking through Moss Motors on-line catalogand 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 ACcompanies makes custom items.  I thought the company was in GA orFL.  Doing a google search 
I see a couple of companies in TX.  So maybe that's where theyare.  But it would
be worth a phone call to see if the can do custom work, if so, send thema picture
of your heater core and some measurements and see what they give you fora 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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