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(Message started by: ChrisF on Oct 18^th, 2007, 8:22pm)

Title: Thermostat
Post by ChrisF on Oct 18^th, 2007, 8:22pm

Is the thermostat difficult to replace

Title: Re: Thermostat
Post by Kjetil S on Oct 18^th, 2007, 9:40pm

On the 2.3? Takes 10-15 minutes. Remove the air intake hose (disconnect it from the throttle body and air filter box), and open the thermostat housing.

Edit:

there is probably a pdf showing how to do it somewhere on the site. I'm too lazy to check right now ;)

Title: Re: Thermostat
Post by peteHull on Oct 18^th, 2007, 9:44pm

http://www.fordscorpio.co.uk/manual/cooling/ThermoDOHC.pdf

Here it is....

Title: Re: Thermostat
Post by jonnycab on Oct 19^th, 2007, 1:09am

You don't have to drain the whole cooling system (as it says in the instructions), or remove the air intake hose.

I usually just pull off the small hose that goes into the expansion tank from the top rad hose & shove a length of tubing into it & siphon the coolant off until it stops flowing from the tubing. This brings the coolant level down to about the T-stat level, so when you remove the housing there should only be minimal coolant loss.

Even if you didn't siphon the coolant out, you would only loose about 1 1/2 litres of coolant by removing the T-stat....although it would soak the belt tensioner spring underneath :)

Title: Re: Thermostat
Post by mr._floppy on Oct 19^th, 2007, 6:32pm

Watch them long thin 10mm boltheads that secure the plastic stat housing, this will be the first time they will have been disturbed since the car was built and rust will have set in.

A few posters have reported them shearing off, leaving one up poo stream without a suitable means of propulsion. ???