Master
Hi all.
Had one of the welch plugs in the head give way and fill the
sump with coolant.
Have removed the head and striped it, have the new screw in
plugs, would like to buy a 1" 16tpi tap to clean the threads in
the head. trouble is no industrial stores in N/E Vic can help me.
I have a thread file as a plan B if i can not get a tap.
Any ideas welcome thanks.
Andrew
Fossicker
Long shot, but this shop in Sydney has lots of stuff the others don't have. As well as new stuff, they go to auctions and buy up old stock. The main thing is they are organised, don't just have piles of unidentified mystery goods. A phone call will get you an answer straight away. Might be worth it. They do have a lot of taps & dies.
Mick Moyle's Engineers Supplies
Jordan
Fossicker
If you dont have any luck, give Graham McDonald Services a call (NSW) they have never let me down and can supply just about any tap/die/drill known to man
RoverLord
PM Brian Hjelm on this forum - he sells this sort of stuff.
John
John
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Wizard
Try to borrow a tap from an electrical contractor. I vaguely remember that it's 1" conduit. .W.
Wizard
1" British Standard Conduit.
They usually clean up well with a thread file.
Aaron
SysAdmin (Owner)
i have a 1" Conduit tap i hire out
PM me for details
but as above they clean up well with a thread file.
you might also be interested in these that i have made as the alloy ones are crap imho
https://www.davesitshop.com/emporium...&product_id=29
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Fossicker
Idea: Use any smaller 16 TPI Whitworth tap as a thread file.
Actually I did that on a Land Rover once (in 1975!) , and remember wishing I had the right sized tap. It did the job, laboriously.
Jordan
Wizard
Aren't they meant to be aluminium, to act as the sacrificial anode?Originally Posted by incisor
Aaron
SysAdmin (Owner)
if you want to use an anode, your way better off using zinc, and, it is much easier to use an zinc/alloy plug in the 1"npt block heater entry point, which is on the same side of the block, same part of the water jacket and wayyyy easier to get at and replace imho, not to mention way easier to source.
is what i have done with mine without any issues...
and you only have to carry one spare...
2007 Discovery 3 SE7 TDV6 2.7
2012 SZ Territory TX 2.7 TDCi
"Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it." -- a warning from Adolf Hitler
"If you don't have a sense of humour, you probably don't have any sense at all!" -- a wise observation by someone else
'If everyone colludes in believing that war is the norm, nobody will recognize the imperative of peace." -- Anne Deveson
“What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.” - Pericles
"We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.” – Ayn Rand
"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts." Marcus Aurelius
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