Changing VT Thermostat...

[petesmith]

Hi Guys,

I'm changing my thermostat tomorrow as the temp gauge has been all over the place and am hoping that this may fix the problem..

Just need a bit of help...the gasket i got says that it is 'self adhesive', does that mean i don't need to use gasket sealant??
Are they hard to change, anything I need to not do or anything!?

Never done one before and don't really wanna stuff it up, I assume it's pretty easy to do, undoing some bolts, changing the over, re-doing bolts...easy as that??

Any help appreciated!!

Thanks

[and3rs]

It's easy enough, I did mine recently and didn't bother with gasket goo, just make sure you scrape all the old gasket off both surfaces, it shouldn't leak. Make sure you bleed the air out of the system after using the screw on the thermostat housing.

[petesmith]

no worries....thank and3rs !!

[Matty89]

Done a few of these, i generally stick the gasket onto housing side.

[petesmith]

thermostat housing off but the actual thermostat won't come out, it's not budging!!! Any ideas??

[Cameron P]

screw driver and lever it out. it should pop off

[petesmith]

all good, plyers did the trick! All back together now, hopefully it now fixes the overheating...the old thermostat had a boiling point of 106, isn't that a bit too high??

[thekid93]

106 is when ur fans come on? saying you have a v6?
91 is where the termo should up at

[petesmith]

on the old thermostat it actually had 196 degrees, then i realised that's Fahrenheit, which is actually 91degrees.
Anyway, changing it has fixed the issues so thank god for that!!