WHat happens if you leave the stock oil thermostat in AND put a thermal pellet in?
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WHat happens if you leave the stock oil thermostat in AND put a thermal pellet in?
I think that I may have messed up. I think that I left the OEM oil thermostat in the eccentric shaft AND put the thermal pellet in. What will happen? ME DUMB A..
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what brand pellet are you using? Atkins, or atkins style? Racing beat?
I have a hard time believing they will both fit in there.
either way, just take the front bolt out and check.
I have a hard time believing they will both fit in there.
either way, just take the front bolt out and check.
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Hah, I proved you wrong. Leave it to me to shoehorn them both in there. I don't know how.........
I used the Atkins style and they did both fit, but the thermal pellet mushroomed a bit. Not much, but a bit.
I used the Atkins style and they did both fit, but the thermal pellet mushroomed a bit. Not much, but a bit.
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Well, I sold the car and it had 200 miles on the rebuild. When the guy took it, he got about 100 miles out of town and the engine froze on him. I took the car back, tore the engine down again and it had fried all of the bearings. You know, tiny little metal shavings everywhere through the engine. NOT GOOD!. One of my thoughts was that because they were packed in there so tightly, it starved for oil on the journals. Possible? It really killed me becasue I had to give the guy back 7000.00 in cash....OUCH! I really could not stick the guy with the car, I knew it must have been something that I did wrong. Expensive lesson!