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Old 11-27-2016, 12:40 AM
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Originally Posted by upallnight View Post
If you are going to change out the water pump might as well do the thermostat, this way when you refill the system with fresh antifreeze, you don't need to dump the antifreeze again to do the thermostat.
Good Point.

Being a stickler for torque specs, I installed a new t'stat pre-water pump install. No way to accurately establish t'stat rear/lower fastener torque with water pump installed.
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