Sailfish18 Posted April 17, 2023 Posted April 17, 2023 Does anyone have a serviceable / suitable for refurb cylinder head for BMC 1.5? Had an unfortunate accident removing the old heat exchanger and broke the outside of the casting around the thermostat housing. Still looking into possibility of a repair. Fitting a Bowman BL180 manifold / tank. A connection diagram would also be handy if anyone has one. Thanks in advance. Matt Quote
Smoggy Posted April 17, 2023 Posted April 17, 2023 If you need a heat exchanger I have one that needs a bit of fettling around one of the hose spigots, has a good tubestack. No head though. Quote
Cheesey69 Posted April 17, 2023 Posted April 17, 2023 From experience good top ends getting hard to find. Personally I would go down the repair path, along with a rebuild of the head and least you know what you’re getting. Quote
JanetAnne Posted April 17, 2023 Posted April 17, 2023 If it's the same as a 1.8 (and I think the head is) then I can help 1 Quote
Vaughan Posted April 18, 2023 Posted April 18, 2023 13 hours ago, Sailfish18 said: Does anyone have a serviceable / suitable for refurb cylinder head for BMC 1.5? Had an unfortunate accident removing the old heat exchanger and broke the outside of the casting around the thermostat housing. Still looking into possibility of a repair. You may find it was already cracked before you tried to remove it. These old heat exchangers are only held on by three small studs and they were a "natural" for people to stand on when working in the engine compartment. I would have thought it should be a simple matter for a firm to do a weld in this area and then, as you say, fit a Bowman side mounted heat exchanger. 1 Quote
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