gmctd wrote:
Intent is awareness, dude - his pic is apocalypse (revelation, for you non Greek-speaking members): you'll just be removing the thin crimped flashing part of the lower casting to allow separation - the lower\upper mating surfaces are finished
I see what you're saying now, I looked at my new oem spare thermostat and I saw how the pieces are bound together. I'll chop up my existing unit that's on the Crd when I'll replace it with turbo diesel freak's thermostat and see how easy is to separate the pieces and how smooth the separated parts are.
Right now I see these potential issues:
- I'm not sure how straight and smooth the top and bottom part will be after separation as they were not meant to have a gasket in between like td freaks unit. I think this is not as big of a deal since a gasket could fix minor imperfections.
- I am not sure how long can we drill into the bottom housing and if it would support properly sized studs in it. Overall, I don't know how robust the whole modified unit will be.
- I do not know what thermostat will fit in the housing. This is my main concern right now
- even though this is a great idea, I do not know how reliable the unit will be over time. It depends also on how well this is done.
To clarify, I am not criticizing the idea, I think is a great one and we need to congratulate dh100m for putting it practice. But, I wonder why nobody yet thought about it, including kap and td freak. I believe the main reason was finding a thermostat that would fit without modifications of the housing.
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