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Anyone have the common issue of the metal evenutally rusting out on your heatertap in your e-series.

Anyway I found a good replacement, a BA/BF one, the ford dealer had no E-series ones left and he said "Try this" and I did.

The are full plastic, no metal in them at all, so it solves your issue of them rusting out and they will prolly last alot longer...

Is there any major price difference between the BA/BF and E-series?

Corey

I dont think you can get the e-series ones, I paid $24 off the street.

I think AU heatertaps are also plastic. My EA heatertap rusted out, so I replaced it with a plastic one. It eventually snapped, so they aren't immune from problems either

Every Eseries I have had has had a plastic heater tap... Maybe it because all of mine were V8's though.

They tend to go brittle with the constant heating/cooling cycles and end up snapping.

Speaking of those ones. One day Rob aka IMPHAT aka EFECTD aka EFXTC aka Spange aka DUFSTA turned up to a minimeet driving an AU XR8 ute. He let everyone have a drive. Josh L drove it down the road and came back with steam pouring out from under the bonnet. The plastic heater tap had snapped in a similar way to Allen's

My heater tap wasn't broken and I took it out and blocked off the pipes and put a welsh plug in the bottom of the thermostat housing. Don't need functioning heater around these parts. It's so much easier to service the dizzy and everything else under the manifold now.

Frost wrote:Anyone have the common issue of the metal evenutally rusting out on your heatertap in your e-series.

Anyway I found a good replacement, a BA/BF one, the ford dealer had no E-series ones left and he said "Try this" and I did.

The are full plastic, no metal in them at all, so it solves your issue of them rusting out and they will prolly last alot longer...

lmfao
you idiot, good for a laugh though

burnt turtle wrote:lmfao
you idiot, good for a laugh though

Fairlane_Ghia wrote:Every Eseries I have had has had a plastic heater tap... Maybe it because all of mine were V8's though.

They tend to go brittle with the constant heating/cooling cycles and end up snapping.

Yep, and the AU 5.0 has that exact same heater tap frost will find out how good they are(n't) when his breaks like such

the whole unit is plastic including the vaccume pump. And the 6cyl one is much more simple its just a straight pipe with the "tap" feature in the middle, and they fittings also look alot thicker than those ones.

Frost wrote:the whole unit is plastic including the vaccume pump. And the 6cyl one is much more simple its just a straight pipe with the "tap" feature in the middle, and they fittings also look alot thicker than those ones.

But they still break. I know from experience.

I've got a metal one again, as the plastic one didn't last anywhere near as long as the metal one I had beforehand!

first of all BA's dont run heater taps at all, but BF's do, and the metal heater taps are no longer avaliable from Ford as they have been superceeded but the later model plastic units, which are much better than the old metal ones