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Old 01-17-2009, 01:38 PM
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Originally Posted by 300dmichael View Post
In your picture of the t stat housing, I see what looks like the remnants of a paper gasket around the housing..if that is what there is ,was there a rubber gasket that fits around the t stat it self..If you are trying to seal the housing with a paper gasket and the t stat has no rubber ring on it like my picture, then the t stat will let coolant by it and the car will never warm up.

Thanks.
Ihave the rubber gasket around the tstat itself. It's on nice and snug and fits nice and snug into the housing. Don't know why it's leaking. Is there also
a gasket that goes around the housing? I've never seen one and changed the tstat on three MBs so far.

The photo is actually from the parts car. I just didn't feel like opening my hood (walking across all the ice in my driveway) and the parts car hood is open forever (robbed of it's latch cable).

I just wanted to know what the 'thingy' (it's an industry term) was on the housing. The wire goes down and back to something with a motor and fan.

Thanks,
Ginny
(sad and angry that the time I took to 'fix' things yesterday did NOTHING)
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