Redneck Engineering

[codemonkey]

So today I noticed a leak coming out of my thermostat housing (and i just replaced the thermostat yesterday, so I took it back apart thinking I messed up the gasket. Then I found the nipple going in the housing to be almost completely rusted out. It's kind of hard to see by the phone pic, but it was toasted. I cant believe I didnt notice it yesterday.

So I called around to some local parts stores and nobody had anything. So I rode my mountain bike up to Napa to see what they had, and found one of those nipples that thread into an edelbrock manifold, and rednecked it. I cut it off, and then made the taper with a grinder, and then pressed it in with a vise. Can you believe it, this actually worked! I'm wondering whether I should leave it that way or go looking for the real part. The chrome added .04 horsepower!

 

[codemonkey]

haha, Edit: I just looked up a thermostat housing, and they have one in beaverton for 6.99, so I am going to go ahead and replace it, so I guess my redneck hack won't see a lot of highway time. Just thought it would be funny to post.

 

[The Factor]

Now thats being creative, good job.Like they say in red neck ville get-rrrr done-eeeee Hey I got pulled over the other night and the cop asked me if I was drinking and I said why do I have a fat chick in the back seat .

 

[Black 93 Fox]

Just a helpful hint the chrome t-stat housings leak like a mofo. The chrome makes the threads so fine the water comes threw. When I did my new motor acouple years ago i bought the chrome housing and it leaked and so i took it off a few times and finaly found out from someone else the threads on the nipple leak and will not stop. Good luck on the heater situation I would start with taking the dash apart and seeing what Randall didnt hook back up right and go from there.

 

[codemonkey]

Well, it didn't leak, but I replaced it today with a new housing, that way I didnt have to replace it once my hacked up tube started leaking. I replaced a hose in there, and found that my waterpump nipple is rusting out too. Someone must have ran pure water thru this car for ten years, its amazing.

 

[Mustang78]

wonder what your impellar looks like..i make things like that all the time at home, why not? if it dont work make it work!! i'd weld up a piece of tubing or something for that, then smooth it out with a grinder..but thats just me, for 7 bucks a new one is a good idea

~Mark~

 

[hyperse7en]

if it dont work, make it work. if it breaks, it needed to be fixed anyway

 

[Mustang78]

right on, jeff i bet you did a search for the word redneck to see if your picture would show up and this thread popped up instead, lol

~Mark~

 

[hyperse7en]

im no more redneck than is you..........

notice the rifle in the back window?