New heater balance valve

[GeoffW]

Not seen one of these before, someone tell Black olive quick,http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Rover-75-V8-MG-ZT-260-Heater-Balance-Valve-A14-/110504280446?pt=UK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM&hash=item19ba91817e#ht_1403wt_762

[ColinE]

Steve has looked before but lack of space is the main issue

[black olive]

they dont fit our cars.

[Keith]

That's the internal one. Found down underneath the glovebox somewhere iirc

[spartacus]

they dont fit our cars. Why not, given that it's for V8s?

Not being awkward, just think I need one (no heat on passenger side)

[GeoffW]

Yep' thats the same one thats fitted in my car, Just ripped the dash and heater box out just to confirm ......... not really, just put the part no and my chassis no
into the parts programme and it confirms that that is the one fitted:)

[peterv8]

It's strange when looking at Rimmer's the LHD costs £65 but the RHD costs £350?
I can buy 5 lefties for the price of one RHD!?
Anybody know why?

[ColinE]

Yep - they're ripping us righties off

[mikpeirce]

I believe there are 2 different styles of heater boxes fitted to our cars (Dependant on chassis range/day of the week/how many cups of tea the foreman had drunk before lunch...........!).

As I've had the pleasure of having my heater box completely out of my '04 car (:mad:), this type of heater valve assembly is not fitted as the left/right blend valve is just another of the plenum valves fitted on a different shape bracket.

So, I can only assume that maybe some of the cars (Earlier/later chassis range?) had this ebay advertised style valve fitted. This could explain the price difference with this ebay setup being considerably more expensive than the single valve option fitted on my car.

[black olive]

if they were ever fitted, they were only fitted to the latest cars, and would require different pipework to fit.
perhaps MGR woke up to the fact that the tin valves were shite.

If you are lucky enough to have one of these later valves fitted ( and they are only fitted in the inside of the car as the distribution valve) I would suggest you dont need one as a spare, as they look a better bet than the tin valve.

It MAY be possible to make one fit an earlier car, they fit with the servo motor facing into the heater box, but would require pipwork rearrangement to fit.

the 260 manual shows the heater box fitted with the tin valve.

https://www.two-sixties.co.uk/mgoc260/html/f0rum/showthread.php?t=3348

look at page 80.

Is there a need to " black olive this distrinution valve", Scooter did offer to lend me a heater box as a test bed.

[spartacus]

That is interesting. Mine is not working, suggesting I have the bean can version. However, my car is number 798 so, these ebay ones must be for very late cars indeed.

Sadly, I guess there is only one way to find out. Mik, are you busy? I have a spare bean can valve...

[black olive]

if you can live without the left/right distribution, a 15mm t piece with pipe stubs can be fitted instead of the offending piece of crpap

[greeners]

if you can live without the left/right distribution, a 15mm t piece with pipe stubs can be fitted instead of the offending piece of crpap

Is that all the mexican baked bean can does Steve ?

I thought it shut off the hot water into the matrix altogether ? So with a T piece presumably it would be hot all the time

[black olive]

no, Im on about the distribution valve on the side of the heater. ( but yest with the other vave replaced with a 15mm t piece you would poach gently)

scroll back a bit and look at the post with the link to the 260 manual :)