I got away with it...older and wiser now!

I got away with it...older and wiser now!
I gave up with my heater valve and fitted the brass tap used on earlier models instead. No problem sincendevans wrote: ↑Sun Jul 21, 2019 10:25 amAnd, unsurprisingly, it doesn't work! Ran the engine for 10min, and it started leaking again.ndevans wrote: ↑Sun Jul 21, 2019 7:38 amWow, no one has posted in here for a while!
Latest bodge is on the heater valve. It's leaking out of the end where the spindle pokes out-the diaphragm must have split.
I have cut off the spindle with the valve lever pushed open as far as possible, then put a 3/16" screw with a fibre washer, smothered in blue gasket sealer, in the hole in the end of the valve.
No idea whether it'll hold yet, I haven't started the car up, but at least it's not actually weeing coolant on the garage floor anymore!
I have an interesting booklet from 1973, entitled 'Help Yourself Duckhams Guide to Simple Car Maintenance', which in the last few pages has a section, "Chewing Gum and Baling Wire", describing various ingenious bodges to limp home, one funnily enough being mention of "Bracing a broken leaf spring with a post from a farmer's field and lashed to the broken spring with wire stolen from the same farmer's fence"!kennatt wrote: ↑Thu Aug 01, 2019 8:22 amwell since the imitations of statute on the have long passed, about 50 years ago I had the,then common failure, of the bottom trunion collapsing, the suspension dropped and fortunately it was at the usual time of slow maneuvering after a back seat session with girl friend ,now wife,Miles from anywhere and no mobile phones in those days .Cut a bit of wire from the top of a farmers fence,forced the suspension back together and wired it up. drove it home and to a breakers yard next day to salvage another. Would I do it today with the amount of traffic NOT AT CHANCE .
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