P38A Heater Feed hose, I didn't know it existed

My Diesel blew a hose on Thursday night and needed recovering home. Lots of steam and a squeaky bum as I did not know that there was a hose at the back of the engine so every worst case scenario went through my head. Whilst it cooled down so did I and found the little U shaped hose had blown.

Ordered replacement off Ebay as I was put off the Britpart sold by Island. Now regretting it as have been told it was posted on Thursday 1st class but still not here. Phoned local motor factor and Dingocroft with no luck so looks like I will be stuck tomorrow as no second car at the moment. Also not happy as my boss is an utter jerk and is moaning like hell about me working from home 2 days running.

Someone else had one of these go recently. His was well and truly rusted to hell where it goes in the block, IIRC.

It was tight but a screwdriver acting as a pick worked getting it off. Had to remove inlet manifold to get at the clips. the one nearest the bulkhead was twisted so one of the tangs was also up against the bulkhead. I have the tool to compress these but a set of angled long nose pliers did the job.

EntropyUK said:

It was tight but a screwdriver acting as a pick worked getting it off. Had to remove inlet manifold to get at the clips. the one nearest the bulkhead was twisted so one of the tangs was also up against the bulkhead. I have the tool to compress these but a set of angled long nose pliers did the job.

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Is there a pipe the other side too?

Think it's just the one at back of head on inlet side. People tend not to find that one if it leaks and pull everything apart.
I saw that rusty one, it was real bad! Think I would have gone straight to another head at that point. Think @tarphenry did his too recently.

Grrrrrr said:

Is there a pipe the other side too?

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I think its a metal pipe across back of engine which connects into a 3 way pipe which is on drivers side and the goes into the heater matrix.

Yes metal heater matrix other side. They can burst but not very often/likely. Mark has a thread 'you wouldn't believe it' where his rad blew in his face for no apparent reason. Very lucky man. The thread goes go off on tangents mind

Grrrrrr said:

Someone else had one of these go recently. His was well and truly rusted to hell where it goes in the block, IIRC.

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That would be me then

If that one has rotted through check your front one as well. Turner Engineering do one inc postage circa £11. I have had a rear pipe made up for me, luckily my Heath Robinson field repair has held up so not changed them yet. Will do shortly as another trip to Rochechouarte coming up, that 1500 mile round trip seems to tax any P38 weak bits that for sure

It was a blister burst just after cylinder head outlet. Which hose are you referring to?

he is talking about the fittings into the cylinder head.

Yes the actual pipes into the head at both ends. Funnily enough my hoses were tippety top

When mine leaked it was corrosion on the metal cross pipe end behind the engine. Knackered the hose somewhat. Fitted a new metal pipe and a new hose. However the new aftermarket hose (who would be stupid enough to pay for a Land rover one?) had a smaller O/D than the replaced one so the spring clips would not hold it. I just applied a little Hylomar inside hose and on fittings and used stainless jubilee clips. That was three years ago and still sound.