thermostat gasket
12-31-2002, 03:13 PM
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thermostat gasket
Well, after spending close to seven hours on Friday trying to remove the thermostat, I finally bought a pair of angled pliers and was able to remove it in about fifteen minutes on Sunday. Anyways the gasket that Napa had sold me and that I had in the car was a thick, rubber tube like gasket but the gasket that I originally had was a thin paper like gasket. Is the thicker gasket for the 951 waterpump?
12-31-2002, 05:12 PM
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Someone earlier must have replaced your thermostat with the incorret gasket. The correct gasket is the one you have, a rubber one that wraps around both sides of the thermostat. Depending upon the version of water-pump, you should also have a thick spacer ring as well.