soop
Registered User
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. 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?
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. 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?