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You are going to want to install new OEM gaskets, thermostat, maybe replace the hoses... by that point putting that piece back in would just seem like a step backwards.
If you are in a bind to get the car going soon, you could probably weld in a short piece of steel threaded rod and use the corresponding nut on that side. Align stud before welding by using your thermostat housing/neck for temporary alignment.
"what I plan on doing with the car?" <---<<<it's my daily driver.
That one broke 16 years ago when I was putting a rebuilt engine in. I'm worried that the good one that is on the car now will break also if/when I have to change the thermostat.
Or no other rx-7 thermostat flange has broken like that, and this is a fluke?
Last night I changed the clutch hydraulics, because the clutch was starting to feel weird. $30 in parts, and a couple of days because I used rust reformer on the local rested areas. In 1993, the shyster mazda dealer in Hawthorne (Los Angeles) sold me a leaky one, I tried to return it, and they closed that location.
Last edited by midnight mechanic; 08-05-21 at 12:40 AM.
08-03-21, 04:54 AM
