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RE: Small Coolant Leak

To: "'Bob Spidell'" <bspidell@comcast.net>,
Subject: RE: Small Coolant Leak
From: "Simon Lachlan" <simon.lachlan@homecall.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 04:24:47 -0000
Surely, a possible culprit would be a freeze plug or whatever they're
called?
Simon

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-healeys@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-healeys@autox.team.net] On
Behalf Of Bob Spidell
Sent: 20 January 2006 01:44
To: Ned Smith
Cc: Austin-Healey List
Subject: Re: Small Coolant Leak

Ned,

Before you go to the trouble of removing the carburettors, get the car 
on a lift--or jackstands, if
you're careful--and have a look.  There is a block drain spigot--it 
looks a little like the heater
water cutoff valve on the other side of the block--and it sounds from 
your description like it could
be the cause of the leak (there really isn't anything other than a 
cracked block that could cause
a leak in that location).

bs

Ned Smith wrote:

>My BJ8 has a small coolant leak on the left side of the engine. Every two
>days a drop builds up on the third oil pan bolt from the rear. I can't see
>that part of the block because of the carburetor heat shield.  I think you
>have to remove the carburetors to get the heat shield off. I can get the
top
>four nuts off easily but the bottom inside two are almost impossible to get
>to.
>
>Any suggestions on how to remove the carburetors would be greatly
>appreciated.
>
>
>
>Thanks,
>
>
>
>Ned Smith
>
>BJ8
>
>near Chattanooga, TN




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