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Thanks for the tip about putting the new thermostat in the freezer before installing it. Anyway, just popped it in and when I put the contraption back into the air box I could see the flap was quite closed. As I put my fingers on the thermostat body to warm it up, it responded quite quickly and moved the flap the other way, to block off the hole coming from the warm air pipe from the engine. Kind of neat to see it work.
God knows how long the old one has been faulty! And what harm that may have done to my AMM since I replaced the rusted-full-of-holes flex pipe a couple of months ago, getting only warm air through. Hopefully I've given the AMM a new lease on life, we'll see. But that will accelerate my trying to get a good spare (anybody got one ending in "...016" (for a '92)? I'll trade you for 2 AMM's ending in "...007" that I got off other cars, until I realized that they changed them around '88 on.
How long do these thermostats usually last anyway? At the cost, probably not a bad idea to replace every couple of years just to be safe!
Next job: flame trap replacement (another first time...) Hopefully that will set my car up nicely for winter. Oh I want to get an inline cooling line heater (installing a block heater would probably be a little costly).
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