Water Pump Hoses Connections

[DaveB]

Hi Guys,

I'm in the process of putting right a number of the last owners bodge-jobs on my 74MkII, including this one with a strange connection set-up of the water pump hoses. :?

The water pump to heater connection is blanked off,and the heater return is 'T'd into the water pump to inlet manifold connection. Judging by the state of the clips and pipesit's been like this for some time, the heater works fine and the engine has no overheating problems.

Has anyone come across thisbeforeor can offer any ideaswhy it may have been connected in this way?

New hoses and a heater return pipe are already on order

cheers

Dave

[flying farmer]

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Previous owner has probably had the return pipe corrode away and found it easier to T the return pipe in there rather than getting a kink in the straight pipe by bending it through 180 degrees to fit it to the original pump inlet. Should not make any difference to how it works though.

[mjheathcote]

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flying farmer wrote:

Previous owner has probably had the return pipe corrode away and found it easier to T the return pipe in there rather than getting a kink in the straight pipe by bending it through 180 degrees to fit it to the original pump inlet. Should not make any difference to how it works though.

Agree, works the same.

Easy to put back to OEM spec fortunately.

[DaveB]

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Thanks for confirming it's not a major problem.

Postie delivered new pipe and hoses today, so that's the weekend taken care of

Dave