Re: SER1 Thermostat housing

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Ian

Your other option is to have aluminium in the housing built up and machined
back.  The building up can be done by anyone with aluminium welding
equipment and the machining by a general engineering workshop or even by
yourself and plenty of careful work.

EIR
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeremy Brooks" <jh_brooks@xxxxxxx.xxx>
To: <series1@xxxxxxxxx.xxx>
Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2005 2:41 AM
Subject: RE: SER1 Thermostat housing


Hello Ian

I would make an O seal out of rubber to fit inside the thermostat housing.
Being a '55 motor likely the housing is made of aluminiun and it cracks
easily. Be very careful not to overtighten the 3 studs in en effort to get a
good seal. By design there should be a 1/8 inch gap between the top and
bottom halves of the thermostat housing. Later motors (56 to 58) used a cast
iron thermostat housing. These are direct replacements for the aluminum ones
and are much stronger.

Jeremy



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