Heater hose re-routing

[Keith Stafford]

At present the heater feed is taken off the thermostat near the water pump and both the feed and return hoses are taken down the central tunnel, I want to remove these two hoses and tee-off to the heater from the rad hoses in the front bay, for both feed and return. I am getting some ally Y joints made (rather than tee joints) to keep the pressure up for the heater. Question, does anyone know what I should do with the heater hoses on the engine, see image. You can see:-

Thermostat top-middle.
Heater feed 16mm hose on the left.
Heater return on the right, which has a tee to the water reservoir.

Do I just loop the heater feed from the t/stat to the heater return and close off the connection (heater) on the water tank?

Thanks in advance. K

 

[Andy Green]

See note in your build log

Regards,
Andy

 

[Jim Cowden]

The hot supply to the heater will need to go into the radiator pipe by at least 1/2 way with a 45 deg cut indexed so it is pointing up stream into the flow or the heater will not get hot.
At idle the heater will cool off but above idle it will work.
Don't know about y or t pieces it should be 1 out on the hot pipe 1 in on the cold pipe.


Your pic dosnt show much but the heater hose to tank may help with the bleeding of air.

Jim