Header Tank Parts and description

see also : Header Tank cleaning; Header Tank removing

Header tank parts

Operating

Dismantled - Picture from Tee One #3

1- Tank. Cannot be opened (soldered)
2- Filler cap. Do not drop it, fragile.
3- Warning plate
4- Steam valve
5- Washer fitted beneath the steam valve
6- Filler cap seal
7- Steam valve gasket
8- Steam valve cap (brass)
9- Cheese head screws (two of them are longer, with washers going under the Warning plate
10- Sensor boot protects the brass nuts and the wiring to the sensor (rubber tends to dry and loosen)
11- Sensor prong
12- Circlip holding the sensor prong mounting plate

Opened Header Tank (from Tee One # 30 page 435)

Hose system from Header Tank (Workshop manual)
1 Header tank to radiator
2 Pump to header tank
3 (not from header tank this one) Radiator to thermostat