At 06:37 PM 11/28/05, Rascal wrote:
>Somebody tell me the trick to getting the thermostat out of my 98 318, looks
>way down in there...do you move any of the other mounts out of the way?
Just swapped a 195 for a 180 in my '97 last week.
Remove some coolant from the rad. I use a hand pump syphon.
A rad full will fill 3/4 or so of a 4 liter jug.
Remove the 3 bolts holding down the a/c compressor and
the metal fastener holding the 2 a/c lines together.
Remove the serp. belt.
Raise the compressor up and move towards the rad, enough so that
there is no obstacle over the tstat housing.
Remove the tstat with hose still attached to the housing.
Remove tstat.
Plug hole with a cloth so that no gasket bits fall in when scraping
the old gasket off.
Trickiest part is when putting the tstat housing back on with
the hose still attached. Be careful to make sure that the housing
remains flat before/while/after bolting down the housing. Some
remove the hose from the housing, bolt the housing down and
re-attach the hose. Torque down the bolts to spec.
Hope this helps.
Bob
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