Heater Valve Help

[Moonshine]

HELP - MY PROBLEM/QUESTIONS??? - my heater was eliminated by the previous owner who looped the heater hose from the water pump to the block -and bypassed the heater coil all together - in researching further w/ helpful steps from this sites threads I did a total teardown and diagnosed a few problems under the dash - it appeared that the curvy heater hose was replaced by a straight one that made a kink in the hose dis-allowing the anti-freeze to flow freely creating a leaky weak spot around the valve - besides 2 clamps not being placed correctly - so all in all the previous owner got lazy and just eliminated the heater - i had the heater coil re-tinned (no leaks) - checked all the vacuum tubes - replaced all the 5/8 heater hoses w/ new - in putting everything back together i snapped the copper hosing off the stem (photo attached) - i took the stem out and carefully re-bored w/ drill bit

QUESTIONS -

1) - the stem where the copper hosing is attached - it seems to have no relavancy as a valve and appeared to be just welded to the top of the stem - can i just re-weld to existing hole w/o worrying if the hollow copper tube is flowing correctly ? what does this stem/hollow tube do??

2) In reading a few threads i found that a few have eliminated the heater valve w/ another one from other vehicles and/or just replaced w/ a gate valve in the engine compartment - & when u want heat u just turn on the valve - but i see no diagrams & it seems as if im back to square one w/ no flow to the heater coil - i am not the one to "jerry rig" but to stick to the OEM parts - but do want heat anyway possible

Any input/photos/diagrams would be appreciative

[5thhorsemann]

What year car? I may have what you need new in the box.

[easyguy71]

http://www.courtesyparts.com/ - I bought a new nissan manual controller there about a year and a half ago, no problem.

or if not available through them, contact Oliver at

http://www.datsunstore.com/ - he can re-condition them.

[silvey19k]

i have i siiue with my heater to everything is hooked up but there is no heat could some one help me i have a service man but i was wondering if anybody had the same problem and could help me out

[5thhorsemann]

i have i siiue with my heater to everything is hooked up but there is no heat could some one help me i have a service man but i was wondering if anybody had the same problem and could help me out

Since most of these cars through the past two decades, mine included, are fair weather drivers, the coolant sits in the core and valves and makes corks. Remove, clean, install repeat, on all components outside the engine system.

[Travel'n Man]

I disconnected mine from the firewall - bypassed the entire system - on my to do list but I did not want an unplanned leak...........another project on my to-do list right after a 5 speed transmission

[silvey19k]

ok ill give the system a good once over but my z is a summer/spring car as well but i would like everything to work for show reasons everything ealse works but that even the small things but you know if i ever sell witch im not looking to it would be nice to have sorry about the spelling it was a long flight

[Travel'n Man]

I see you are a man with very few periods...............

[sblake01]

Or punctuation in general, capitalization, etc........

Edited March 18, 2011 by sblake01

[silvey19k]

well when your writeing befor missions dont have a lot of time for that just as long as the point gets there its good but ill fix that.

Edited March 18, 2011 by silvey19k