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Quick update, Saturday morning I tapped the holes in the main water jacket out to an M8 thread size. I did this carefully as there wasn't a lot of meat left on the main housing. I also had to open up the holes in the new thermostat housing that I had brought again being careful. I refitted everythin...

Robsey,

you are a star
thank you for help.

Gaz

Thanks Robsey,

that looks like just the thing i'm after. Thank you again. BTW how do you find the Vauxhall part numbers?

I will keep you posted.

regards

Gaz

Hi Robsey, thank you for the response. I only need to replace the part that holds the thermostat and then bolts to the part you have kindly shown. It's the part shown in the photo links i have posted in the above post and it doesn't have any sensers or anything coming out of it, just the large coole...

Hi Snowy,

heres a link to a couple of pictures i have taken this morning;

http://i1038.photobucket.com/albums/a46 ... mbp3rg.jpg

http://i1038.photobucket.com/albums/a46 ... flktfy.jpg

i hope you can help.

Gaz

Hello again, A little update on my thermostat woes. well i have just spent the last two hours in the cold first trying to extract the broken studs but in the end they wouldn't budge so i have managed to drill them out. I have managed to insert three Allen head bolts (i had to shave a bit off the hea...

Thank you to all that have taken time to respond. I think initially I will initially try with some extractors and if that fails I will attempt to drill the little buggers out. My thoughts being that if that fails I will have no choice then but to source a second hand casting. Swapping out the castin...

Hi Colin,

the bit with the bolts that are stuck sits between the block and timing belt etc. I have given a link to a photo I took yesterday;



Gaz

Hi again to all. Hopefully (if I have understood the instructions) below is a picture or link to a picture of my £70 Cavalier;

http://s1038.photobucket.com/user/gazzo ... 8.jpg.html
http://s1038.photobucket.com/user/gazzo ... 8.jpg.html


Gaz

Hi, my 1.8l was running fine apart from the temperature never lifted from the base line. So I decided to replace the thermostat as it was only £2.99 and shouldn't take longer than an hour to fit................how wrong I was. I cleaned up the three bolt heads securing the thermostat housing and pro...

Hi to all, I have just become the proud owner of a 1995 1.8 L. I purchased the car from a colleague, it was his late fathers and it was going to be scrapped so I purchased it for £70. The car has got 86k on the clock and apart from a fairly heavy clutch it drives and looks really nice. I look forwar...