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504
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 14, 2010 8:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

So I've got two 85C thermostats that came with a spare engine. One was not expanded, and I could pull on the cable to get the thermostat to budge slightly and remain compressed. I boiled it and put it in a 200 degree oven and it wouldn't expand. I had cleaned it (it was filthy) and it looked ok. I put a wrench on the long brass nut where the cable is running through, and it expanded as I twisted the nut (at room temp).

Is this thing toast and did twisting that nut ruin it? Anyone know why it would not expand?
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 14, 2010 11:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sounds like it may have had a very strong vacuum stored in it and that there was a hole in the bottom of the threads that cause the vacuum to be created and that the bolt effectively sealed the hole off which held the vacuum in. By moving the bolt you broke the seal that had been created and air leaked in through the hole. Make sense?
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