Heater valve woes

[Coop160412]

upon changing the heater valve (late type) today everything was going fine, all tightened up & hot run the engine, so all i had to do was finally attach the pull cable

so with a light tug at the inner cable to take up any slack before tightening it up, i got covered in hot water as the metal pressing which attaches to the cast alloy body just came away (this is a NEW valve)

phoned the supplier who admitted it had happened before & said they`d send a new one out 1st post.

but although i wasnt injured, it made me wonder what would have happened if it had gone while driving,

anyone else experienced this ?

[aupickup]

another case of crap repro

buy nos if u can from ebay

[bmcecosse]

If it happened while driving you would have been stuck at the roadside - and possibly the engine would have been damaged if it had just leaked instead of very obviously coming right off. You don't want another valve like this - get money back instead - and fit a good old well proven valve - or just the very simple outlet connector as fitted to many Minis/Marinas etc. It's best to keep the water flowing round the heater core all the time anyway, and v much less chance of it going wrong.