Mike8675309
Registered User
I had quite an adventure tracking down a thermostat gasket. If one came in my gasket sets (which I think one did) I lost it. So I go to NAPA and get a gasket that looks right. Get home and match it to the thermostat housing and I suppose you could call it close, but it obviously isn't right. The hole for the breather is too large and nothing lines up quite right.
Went to a couple other places to try and find a proper one and finally found one store has one in their warehouse from Victor. Picture on their computer looks better, so I order it up and go get it this morning.
Below are two pictures. One is the wrong gasket, of which I have two copies of. The other is the proper gasket. Note the differences. I don't know who the manufacturer of the wrong ones are, but they are the one the parts store tries to give us. I haven't seen a Felpro gasket to see if it's right, but so far it looks like only Victor has it right for the SC.
Down side to the Victor gasket is no sticky side to help hold the thermostat in. So I used RTV and let it sit for a while to hold the thermostat in, then put the gasket in with RTV on both sides.
Yeah... cold water leak at the thermostat housing. I gotta get a billet thermostat housing made.
Went to a couple other places to try and find a proper one and finally found one store has one in their warehouse from Victor. Picture on their computer looks better, so I order it up and go get it this morning.
Below are two pictures. One is the wrong gasket, of which I have two copies of. The other is the proper gasket. Note the differences. I don't know who the manufacturer of the wrong ones are, but they are the one the parts store tries to give us. I haven't seen a Felpro gasket to see if it's right, but so far it looks like only Victor has it right for the SC.
Down side to the Victor gasket is no sticky side to help hold the thermostat in. So I used RTV and let it sit for a while to hold the thermostat in, then put the gasket in with RTV on both sides.
Yeah... cold water leak at the thermostat housing. I gotta get a billet thermostat housing made.