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Old 09-03-2008, 08:12 AM
Kpmurphy Kpmurphy is offline
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Originally Posted by pawoSD View Post
Usually if you shear off the bolts on the thermostat housing you can take the cover off anyways, and then remove the stubs with some vice grips, works fine....clean out the hole, use some new bolts, and you're set. I had it happen on both of our SD's, had it fixed in about 10 minutes.
I was at Pierres shop geting a thermostat over the weekend he told me to get a hammer and center punch and hit the top of the bolts with it before I try to break the bolts loose. Well it worked. I still thought 1 of the bolts would break but it did not.
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