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Old 06-12-2020, 10:27 PM
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So, it took me 2 hours to change the water jacket plate gasket... when I see that Mo needs 2.5 hours to change a head gasket...
anyway: because it was installed 2 months ago, everything came apart easily. Access is not great, but not the end of the world.

As explained by Ken, I also had installed the thermostat wrongly. For my arrangement it is: gasket, then thermostat, then shoe-spacer, then gasket, then thermostat housing. And it indeed mounting was much better than last time!

Only impressive thing is that the plate seems to have already some significant corrosion after just 4 years. These plates are nearly a decade-consumable !!
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