New belts today!

soop

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It's a bit of a big deal for me because I don't get a lot of time to work on the car. I finally replaced the 3 belts and changed the coolant, hoses, and thermostat.

It's a '90 with 130,000 miles with original belts and hoses. I bought it in Oct and had been meaning to get to it. They were cracked to he!!.

The guy at Lordco didn't have any 195 t-stats, so he wanted to sell me a 180 deg unit telling me that it would make any difference in operating temp, my engine would just run as hot at it always does. :rolleyes: My engine already runs cool, so I declined and left and picked up a Motorcraft piece.

It would barely warm up before the change and now operates at a normal level, hovering around the N. The prev owner must have put a 180 in it, or else it was just shot. The old one did not have the tiny copper valve in it.

It took me 2.5 hours. Not bad?
 
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