So my 36-ish year old Thermostat housing cap finally gave up the ghost, the dozen other ones I had laying around were just as bad. With a new one a week out and wanting to drive the old rig, what's a guy to do?
Well I keep a used industrial truck / tractor tube around.....
Take a knife, screwdriver etc. and break that old hard cracked gasket out of the housing, Take your old inner tube and cut a chunk out, lay it flat, place the bits of the old hard broken original seal together best you can, trace it out, start cutting it out, I was in a hurry, I used scissors. After cutting it out, trimming, work it in place and viola!
I been driving on this all week, no problem.
Before
After
this one isn't perfect, but it works, this is something that only needs to be ' close enough' took me 10 minutes including digging that tube out and looking for scissors. I will do another and show how simple this is, will spec the thickness of the original seal and the tube, I will add that
* yes I know, it's not the same cap off of my car, I had a bunch of them at hand, just grabbed the first one within reach*
[This message has been edited by jelly2m8 (edited 04-20-2024).]