Re: Re: 1955 Traction 11B “Barn Find” Project

Onto removing the rusty old coolant tube inside the head. What a ridiculous design this is. A job I was not looking forward to at all.

This is the tube that runs from end to end within the head and distributes coolant through 4 little holes. One end is open to the water pump and the other butts up against a core plug. So first things first was removing the core plug. I watched a dozen tutorials on You Tube showing how easy it was. All of them were on big US engines where the core plugs are the size of dinner plates. Mine ate 25mm and 30mm. It took some hammering, heat and a lot of swearing but I got the end one out.

I then had to take the top core plug out to dismantle bit by bit the rusted tube. I used a metal down rod to tap out the remnants of the tube and pulled the pieces out where I could with pliers. What a crappy job but all done with 4 core plugs to replace.

Here you can see the rusted tube inside the head, it was like this all the way along.

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Here is the tube and the core plugs, the way they ended up 😮

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And finally the light at the end of the tunnel 😀

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Have ordered new core plugs and a new tube. I then went onto clean the outside of the head and paint it the normal green. Day off tomorrow so leave it all to dry before rebuilding the head and then climbing underneath the car to finish off the floor.