mywhite89
Registered User
I like many people on here have experienced the common problem with supercoupes where the thermostat housing warped one way or another and causes an annoying(or in my case steady) coolant leak.
I decided I am going to make a 3/8 thick plate to weld to the thermostat housing. The plate will be cut out the same as a motorcraft thermostat gasket. It then will need to be planed to insure a flat surface and an indentation made where the thermostat seats itself.
Well I stopped in to a business today called Innovative Tooling Inc. They do commercial metal lazer cutting, milling, and welding. After learning all this, I convinced them to fix my thermostat housing. They told me they will make a drawing on an Autocad type of program of my thermostat gasket, and be able to use the program to lazer cut me a 3/8 thick piece of metal.
I'm not sure how much they are going to charge me to do all this, but I do know that I am sick of screwing with that housing so I don't care what it costs. I'm pretty sure this extra support piece will help prevent our housings from warping anymore.
I figured since they have to produce a drawing to cut this piece for me anyways, it wouldn't be too hard to make some extras in case anyone else is interested in something like this.
If this seems like something you would be interested in purchasing, please let me know as soon as possible and I'll talk to these guys and see if they would be willing to make a few extras for us. You would just be purchasing the 3/8 lazer cut piece of metal. The rest of the work, you would be responsible for.
Chris
I decided I am going to make a 3/8 thick plate to weld to the thermostat housing. The plate will be cut out the same as a motorcraft thermostat gasket. It then will need to be planed to insure a flat surface and an indentation made where the thermostat seats itself.
Well I stopped in to a business today called Innovative Tooling Inc. They do commercial metal lazer cutting, milling, and welding. After learning all this, I convinced them to fix my thermostat housing. They told me they will make a drawing on an Autocad type of program of my thermostat gasket, and be able to use the program to lazer cut me a 3/8 thick piece of metal.
I'm not sure how much they are going to charge me to do all this, but I do know that I am sick of screwing with that housing so I don't care what it costs. I'm pretty sure this extra support piece will help prevent our housings from warping anymore.
I figured since they have to produce a drawing to cut this piece for me anyways, it wouldn't be too hard to make some extras in case anyone else is interested in something like this.
If this seems like something you would be interested in purchasing, please let me know as soon as possible and I'll talk to these guys and see if they would be willing to make a few extras for us. You would just be purchasing the 3/8 lazer cut piece of metal. The rest of the work, you would be responsible for.
Chris
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