tonyp25
Well-Known Member
Looks like the guy before me used a blue adhesive silicone gasket maker. There is a small leak (circled in yellow below) coming from the blue gasket. From reading other posts a lot of people seem to recommend either Mancini or billet or just replacing the gasket with one from realgaskets.com. I might be overthinking this but just want to get it right the first time.
I was about to just go with a housing (motorad) and gasket (felpro) from rock auto but not sure that’s the best choice. Thermostat seems to be working perfectly so not really sure I need to replace that. Cost isn’t an issue. Plus the current thermostat housing has two different bolts in it and is surely not torqued to spec.
What do you all recommend? It’s for a 1974 Road Runner, 318. When I search on jegs or summit, not many housings come up when filtering for ones that fit my car and the ones that do are all dorman brand
Also noticed my temp sending unit is disconnected with only a taped up wire next to it. Can I wrap that wire around the sending unit or is there a plug that should be attached to it?
I was about to just go with a housing (motorad) and gasket (felpro) from rock auto but not sure that’s the best choice. Thermostat seems to be working perfectly so not really sure I need to replace that. Cost isn’t an issue. Plus the current thermostat housing has two different bolts in it and is surely not torqued to spec.
What do you all recommend? It’s for a 1974 Road Runner, 318. When I search on jegs or summit, not many housings come up when filtering for ones that fit my car and the ones that do are all dorman brand
Also noticed my temp sending unit is disconnected with only a taped up wire next to it. Can I wrap that wire around the sending unit or is there a plug that should be attached to it?