>2) Any suggestions for keeping the thermostat
>in the correct position when I try to mount the
>neck back onto the manifold? It keeps slipping
>out of it's little groove every time I try to mount it.
The last time I had my 'stat out I spent a couple of _hours_
fighting the same problem, and only after I had it together again did the
obvious solution occur to me. If you remove the radiator hose from the neck,
you can reach in through the hole and _hold_ the 'stat in place on the neck
while installing it, either with your fingers if they're long & skinny like
mine, or with some needle-nose pliers, or a stiff length of wire with a hook
in one end. Perhaps the next Griot's Garage catalog will feature an
Austrian-made "Thermostat retaining clip, as used by all major Formula One
teams" for $69.95 or so.
Lawrence R. Wright
"I can't get no-- Satis-Traction"
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