Robbie, It does screw into the head and I guess you don't need me to tell you that you are in deep doodoo with this one. You may be able to just block it off but however it's blocked off would have to withstand the pressure in the cooling system, not an easy thing to reliably do without a substantial screw thread. I'm thinking you'd get away with just blocking it off as when a heater is fitted but the tap is in the "off" position there wont be (or I can't see how) any water flow out of that pipe anyway so with it blocked off the head cooling shouldn't be any different to normal summer time running with a heater.
The direction of the water through a heater in a 1600 is out of the pipe at the rear of the head, through the heater core and then via the long hose into the water pump. You can bypass a heater by running a hose from the water pump inlet and that outlet at the rear of the head and this is probably what you intended to do as the circulation isn't any different from with a heater install and the tap in the "on" position. If you have a friend that's a mechanic it might pay to ask him if he can have a look at it to see if you have any way out of the problem which avoids head removal. I'm pretty sure it's an easy fix at a head shop - that's a thought, give someone a ring at a local head shop for advice. regards Terry -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of David Andrews Sent: Sunday, 4 August 2002 2:46 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Snapped heater hose in the head? Ummm.. i'm sure others will be able to correct me here.. but doesn't that pipe screw into the block? In which case you could try to unscrew it with something - dunno what though - then screw in a new one. Or you could do a dodgy thing and tap out the jammed pipe and then screw in another smaller pipe into that one. Of course that'd be a quick-fix and i'm not even sure if they screw in. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< On 8/4/02, 2:23:40 PM, "Robbie Vidler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote regarding Snapped heater hose in the head?: > i snapped the water thingy on the back of the head the one that would > normally goto the heater > i am not running a heater as the whole interior was stripped to be a > rally/hill climb car... what should i do from here... idon't wanna remove > the head as i just spent all yesterday putting it back on (after the > annoying timing chain incident) --membersozdat------------------------------------------------------- OZDAT Mailing List Please Note:- Send (un)subscribe requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send submissions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] No unauthorised redistribution of this email http://www.ozdat.com/ozdatonline/index.htm http://www.ozdat.com/ozdatonline/listindex.html http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------
