Series III heater valve

Hello from Montreal (Brisbane most of the time).

This thread is timely because I happened to reassemble my heater the week before I came away and used one of these metal ‘Ford’ taps from Rare Spares. As noted, the clip that stops the outer cable slipping is missing from the new tap.

I don’t think I still have the original tap and was planning to see if I could find one on a wreck. If anyone has one they are willing to part with then please PM the contact details.

Cheers,

Neil

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Originally Posted by S3ute

Hello from Montreal (Brisbane most of the time).

This thread is timely because I happened to reassemble my heater the week before I came away and used one of these metal ‘Ford’ taps from Rare Spares. As noted, the clip that stops the outer cable slipping is missing from the new tap.

I don’t think I still have the original tap and was planning to see if I could find one on a wreck. If anyone has one they are willing to part with then please PM the contact details.

Cheers,

Neil

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Rare Spares will have the clips plus they are available on Ebay.

Expensive little buggers though.....NEW HEATER CABLE SPRING CLIP FOR HK HT HG HOLDEN MONARO KINGSWOOD BROUGHAM | eBay


Colin

I got my cables from a local mower shop.
They use solid core cables, for the Throttle. Cut to suit.

whitehillbilly

G'day All,

I used a small stainless steel hose clamp instead of a similar looking clip on the Mini Clubman. Maybe that will work on the L/R valve. Wind out the hose clamp and feed thru the slot.

Chris

A couple of points to note re Series heater taps. My 1961 S2 has a Smiths heater similar to but obviously not the same as those fitted to them from new. Holes in firewall are in different places. Then it had a right angled tap of the cable operated type but no cable was ever connected. Was not impressed with this tap. Blowing through it when fully open showed it restricted water flow compared with just the hose or through a gate valve or bigger tap. So installed one of these instead, which should facilitate more hot water through heater element.

Then from also owning Defender and Disco 1 with 300 Tdi's, which were developed from original Rover diesel of 1956 and Series 2 onward 4 cylinder motors, note that there is no tap to turn off water flow through the heaters. Seems this are an important part of the engine cooling system, taking hot water from the rear and returning it to the water pump. I gather any overheating damage tends to occur first around rear of head and block. So in S2 petrol motor, also installed a bypass tap which can be turned on to allow water flow when heater tap is turned off. Note that some cars have two way taps in water circuits to heaters to achieve same result.

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Originally Posted by gromit

Rare Spares will have the clips plus they are available on Ebay.

Expensive little buggers though.....NEW HEATER CABLE SPRING CLIP FOR HK HT HG HOLDEN MONARO KINGSWOOD BROUGHAM | eBay


Colin

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Hello again.

Finally got around to seriously chasing the clip. Picked one up at Rare Spares in Virginia (Brisbane) for $5.60.

Cheers,

Neil