Steel heater pipe

After replacing the rubber heater pipe to the engine I find to my dismay that it is the steel heater pipe itself that is failing. Two places at the back and I think at the front. Luckily it happened outside my house.
What do you do? I see it is in a box section with the main radiator pipes. Is there a clever way of bypassing the pipe with something else? Is there a way to drive it to my garage to use a hoist or can I do it on my ramps? What does the front end look like and its connections? Any help would really be appreciated.
Ah dear.

After looking further I think the leak is just at the back but in two places. The last where it enters the box section and is last supported. The water at the front I think is from the other leaks going down the box section and out. My idea is to cut out the last bit of the box section carefully, find some good straight pipe there and join the hose to that. Is this sensible?

Hi David, you can make a repair as you describe but the risk is that the pipes are on their last legs generally, and will just pinhole somewhere else soon.

Both heater pipes run in the centre tunnel, one low down that is very difficult to do anything with, and one higher up in the tunnel (you will see it tucked into the side of the tunnel), which can be cut down and removed.

The minimum fix would be to run two rubber/15 mm copper pipes alongside the centre tunnel under the carpet and leave the originals in place. Or you could perhaps run a new 15 mm copper pipe in place of the higher pipe and run another copper pipe under the carpet.

The only way to fix it properly is to replace them I'm afraid. They will all need replaced at sometime in their life.

Hi all, I have fitted 28mm cooper as a internal sleeved type deal with 28mm to 35mm Yorkshire fittings at either end ( that takes it back to the original size of pipe ) I think it's worked ?????????

An entirely practical and inexpensive solution Mr Erskine.