I am talking about screwing a car together of course 😊 After picking up the Morgan last Friday I could not get started on the open issues right away due other obligations. Fixing the coolant leakage problem had top priority to do the next test drive. The issue was caused by the fact that the new hose clamps were wider and therefore did not grab behind the pipe olives. The pictures make the problem easily visible. So, on late Saturday afternoon I made an online appointment at the local DIY market. A new cooper pipe with a T-connector and two reductions fittings was quickly found.
What I got a press-fittings. Cooper can also be soldered – but the fittings are slightly different. A special tool is needed to press the fittings together (hence their name). Even though the DIY market had such a tool on the rental shelf – which I only needed for the 3 sides of the T-connector – they insisted that I need a rental contract, pay fee and deposit for the entire weekend and do it outside the market. 50€ for maybe 2 minutes usage was nuts – so I went home thinking about what else I could do this weekend.
After an early dinner I decided to ask at another DIY market. The title of this post is our family-motto. And the combination of “a friendly ask” meeting better customer service solved the press-fitting problem in 2 minutes. Back in the garage I got started on fitting the new cooper pipe right away. In case you also must work on a Morgan 4/4 with Ford CVH you may find the following advice helpful: if you need to work on the hose clamps beneath the distributor – take out the cooper pipe including the hoses pictured below and work on those hose clamps on the bench. In the end it is quicker and a whole lot easier.
While the new cooper pipe shown below works great with the wider hose clamps – the end of the pipe is also a bit longer and close to the bulkhead. This caused a too heavy bending radius for the heater hose. My solution was to shorten the cooper pipe on the other end – moving the T-connector closer to the engine – which in turn required a new bracket to attach the cooper pipe to the engine. If you run into this situation – take a look at this thread on the TalkMorgan forum. The hose clamp posted by an author called “image” over there would have been a way easier solution…
recovering the coolant still in the system 
Morgan standard I believe 🙂 
One the bench it is easy to see: the clamp is too wide.. 
old vs. new cooper pipe and T-connector 
as the new pipe extends the pipe quite a bit – the heater hose is bend too much 
disconnect the hoses from the heater valve and inlet manifold 
move the hoses to the exhaust side, pull out the front of the cooper pipe – then you can easily remove the entire set 
I had to change the orientation of the clamp on the short piece of hose 
With the T-connector closer to the engine again – the heater hose is OK again 
Doing test drives – all coolant hoses are good now
Fixing C6622 
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