Spring thing attached to engine ?
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Ric1
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Spring thing attached to engine ?
What is this ?
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what2do wrote:
Can you slip your fingers into the cavity and feel for warmth?
what2do wrote:
Can you slip your fingers into the cavity and feel for warmth?
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mrhutch
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Re: Spring thing attached to engine ?
that sir, is your thermostat.
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Ric1
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Re: Spring thing attached to engine ?
mrhutch wrote:that sir, is your thermostat.
Oh ...
Its not attached to any thing
Thanks
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what2do wrote:
Can you slip your fingers into the cavity and feel for warmth?
what2do wrote:
Can you slip your fingers into the cavity and feel for warmth?
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Re: Spring thing attached to engine ?
No, it reacts to the temperature around it, opens up letting a cable move which is connected to the air flaps on top of the engine. Yours is one of the very rare type that is still working, by the look of it!
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Re: Spring thing attached to engine ?
Rod may have been removed though.
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Re: Spring thing attached to engine ?
ajsimmo wrote:No, it reacts to the temperature around it, opens up letting a cable move which is connected to the air flaps on top of the engine. Yours is one of the very rare type that is still working, by the look of it!
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what2do wrote:
Can you slip your fingers into the cavity and feel for warmth?
what2do wrote:
Can you slip your fingers into the cavity and feel for warmth?
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Ric1
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Re: Spring thing attached to engine ?
CovKid wrote:Rod may have been removed though.
Its all there and i just need the cable which is on order
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what2do wrote:
Can you slip your fingers into the cavity and feel for warmth?
what2do wrote:
Can you slip your fingers into the cavity and feel for warmth?