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help! .... not again
Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2016 5:26 pm
by NollyDolly
Hi all, ref the attached photo, I have .... once again .... broken the small insert pipe (at the thermostat cover) for the overflow connection
anybody know what the part number is or where I can get a replacement?
thanks in advance, Doug.
Re: help! .... not again
Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2016 5:52 pm
by James467
Ouch, they are NLA I believe
158633 Pre 76
UKC6916 post 76
Sprint and 1850 use the same.
Re: help! .... not again
Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2016 5:54 pm
by Jon Tilson
A common failing.
The standard fix is to drill out the old pipe and fit a new one.
You can get this done at your local engineering shop.
You wont find a new one for sensible money and a 2nd hand one will probably do the same to you soon...
Jonners
Re: help! .... not again
Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2016 5:55 pm
by xvivalve
Re: help! .... not again
Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2016 11:08 pm
by Maidstonerob
When it happened to mine i picked up an outlet from a motorfactors (jayars) for a vauxhall corsa. Tapped a thread into the housing to match the threaded corsa outlet. Then used that putty metal stuff that sets hard can be drilled etc and covered /shaped it over the joint. Looks fine and works a treat.
Re: help! .... not again
Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2016 7:00 am
by Maidstonerob
Its a water pump connector on the corsa.
Re: help! .... not again
Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2016 7:37 am
by tony g
I repaired one recently with a similar idea. I got an 1/8 bsp thread with hose tail. Tapping for 1/8 takes out the metal just nicely then ptfe tape on the thread and that's it.
Tony
Re: help! .... not again
Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2016 8:27 am
by NollyDolly
thanks guys most helpful.
Re: help! .... not again
Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2016 2:37 pm
by RJF_70
tony g wrote:I repaired one recently with a similar idea. I got an 1/8 bsp thread with hose tail. Tapping for 1/8 takes out the metal just nicely then ptfe tape on the thread and that's it.
Tony
And it works nicely Tony
Re: help! .... not again
Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2016 6:54 am
by tony g
Re: help! .... not again
Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2016 9:17 am
by trackerjack
It is not just Triumphs that suffer this problem. My wife Diane's MX5 has a take off pipe like the one shown and I repaired it by drilling and tapping a thread and screwing in a hose tail connector, it also saved me a major strip down as the MX would have needed a complete cambelt front engine removal to replace the unit whole.
Re: help! .... not again
Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2016 10:11 pm
by Karlos
trackerjack wrote:It is not just Triumphs that suffer this problem. My wife Diane's MX5 has a take off pipe like the one shown and I repaired it by drilling and tapping a thread and screwing in a hose tail connector, it also saved me a major strip down as the MX would have needed a complete cambelt front engine removal to replace the unit whole.
Yeah, I had exactly the same issue on my MX5 mk1.
