[s-cars] RE: Thermostat Replacement

Sean Douglas quattro20v at telus.net
Sun Jun 19 22:21:51 EDT 2005


Dave:

The front one can be reached with a small 1/4 drive socket wrench and a
flex socket. I'm pretty sure this is how I tightened mine. Or I may have
used a short extension on a regular socket.

You are welcome to borrow my tools if you need to.

Sean Douglas

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Forgie [mailto:forgied at direct.ca] 
> Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2005 6:09 PM
> To: s-cars
> Subject: Thermostat Replacement
> 
> 
> FINALLY (and I mean FINALLY) go around to changing my 
> thermostat (crapped out in April) today.  (I haven't been 
> driving the car very much).  I drained the rad as much as 
> possible but still had some leakage when I pulled the failed 
> thermostat out.  The brass frame had failed at the top joint 
> (broken even before I started pulling it out).
> 
> I installed the new thermostat with the frame vertical (as the old one
> was) with a new O-ring. (I didn't test the thermostat to see 
> if worked in "boiling" water first - I may be sorry).  I hand 
> tightened both bolts before starting to snug them down.  The 
> lower (rear) one was no problem with a 12" extension.  
> However, I don't feel as if I have the upper
> (front) bolt tight enough (despite using a 6 point socket, a 
> universal joint and an extension to the rachet located above 
> the PS pump).
> 
> THE QUESTION:
> 
> Can you get a "snubby" rachet with a short extension to get a 
> direct (no
> universal) shot at the upper (front) bolt.
> 
> TIA
> 
> Dave F.
> 



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