Thermostat housing for turbo
02-01-2012, 07:08 PM
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Thank you for justifying my facepalm post, though it was intended towards other people posting at that time.
I just told you how to correct it in the post you are acknowledging (as did Dan earlier). Just drill the hole down the center like in the original t-stat neck.
sheesh
I just told you how to correct it in the post you are acknowledging (as did Dan earlier). Just drill the hole down the center like in the original t-stat neck.
sheesh
i don't know if i misunderstanding about what you said about the facepalm, but let's leave it behind...
..yeah i am trying to figure out now..since the real of thermostat housing has limit access as you can see the pic below...it is my fault...i should have posted this pic at the beginning..
but trying to figure it out...drilling the hole on the bottom of it is not an option as now..the bend is shorter now because i have to cut it..it touched the turbo
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02-01-2012, 07:58 PM
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my bad and apology then because I couldn't see that it wasn't still connected in the prior pics
This is why understanding and planning should come before doing. It would have been a lot easier to do it right the first time than going back and making it work after the fact. You will have b-tch of a time TIG welding anything in there now. Think I have another housing you can have to make another one. Let me look at it later this evening and see if what I have in mind will work.
This is why understanding and planning should come before doing. It would have been a lot easier to do it right the first time than going back and making it work after the fact. You will have b-tch of a time TIG welding anything in there now. Think I have another housing you can have to make another one. Let me look at it later this evening and see if what I have in mind will work.
02-01-2012, 08:25 PM
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You need to add a tube...or TIG in this are so that when you drill out the hole from the top into the lower tube it is sealed 
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my bad and apology then because I couldn't see that it wasn't still connected in the prior pics
This is why understanding and planning should come before doing. It would have been a lot easier to do it right the first time than going back and making it work after the fact. You will have b-tch of a time TIG welding anything in there now. Think I have another housing you can have to make another one. Let me look at it later this evening and see if what I have in mind will work.
This is why understanding and planning should come before doing. It would have been a lot easier to do it right the first time than going back and making it work after the fact. You will have b-tch of a time TIG welding anything in there now. Think I have another housing you can have to make another one. Let me look at it later this evening and see if what I have in mind will work.
steven
02-01-2012, 11:36 PM
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If you make a U-shaped piece and welded around the perimeter. Otherwise trying to weld around a round tube would be extremely difficult on the back side, but an extremely talented welder with the right torch could probably do it.
The issue is that too much was cut away. The correct way IMO would be to pull out the two steel hose connection tube fittings, then cut away everything up to the bypass port, and then most of the material a bit underneath the bypass port all the way back to the flange. Then take a holesaw of the same diameter as the new outlet tube and position it to cut the area at the bottom of the bypass down to the flange. This would allow you to position and weld the new outlet tube to the flange and bypass. Once this is done you can then just drill down the bypass hole through the top of the new outlet tube and the job is complete.
PM me where you want it sent.
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The issue is that too much was cut away. The correct way IMO would be to pull out the two steel hose connection tube fittings, then cut away everything up to the bypass port, and then most of the material a bit underneath the bypass port all the way back to the flange. Then take a holesaw of the same diameter as the new outlet tube and position it to cut the area at the bottom of the bypass down to the flange. This would allow you to position and weld the new outlet tube to the flange and bypass. Once this is done you can then just drill down the bypass hole through the top of the new outlet tube and the job is complete.
PM me where you want it sent.
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