Re: 4000 Thermostat gasket

[Huw Powell <human@nh.ultranet.com>]

> Thanks to all who responded to my question about the thermostat replacement
> on my '87 4000csq.  Yesterday I finally obtained a thermostat from Pepboys.
> The guy stared at his screen unbelievingly for several seconds since (but
> of course!) it was the most expensive thermo. he had ever seen.  Cost me
> $24.  The gasket which supposedly goes with it worries me, however, for it
> looks like a trunkated edge romboid with a cutout diameter much smaller
> than needed to fit anywhere on the thermo.  Besides it is made of paper.  I
> imagined a rubber ring.  Am I full of it or what?  Help me, please, step in
> the light on this for I am trying to get this done on Saturday, weather
> allowing.

sounds like the gasket for the upper hose flange to head mounting?  The
thermostat gasket is, as you expect, a rubber O-ring.

-- 
Huw Powell

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82 Audi Coupe; 85 Coupe GT
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