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  1. 25th June 2024, 09:17 PM #31
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    Quote Originally Posted by V8Ian View Post
    Holden and Falcon/Fairlane, the most reliable, albeit amongst the most appliance like, cars I've ever owned.
    I've never had to replace a thermostat housing on any vehicle I've owned.
    Same. And I’ve owned them a long time. I have seen pitted ones, but not on my cars.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tombie View Post
    Why? I never had a cast alloy thermostat housing last 7 years on any Holden, Ford or Mitsubishi....
    No, the old alloy thermostat housings were sacrificial. They were effectively the anode for the cooling system and designed to be replaced in preference to the other metal parts the coolant was exposed to.
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    Quote Originally Posted by BradC View Post
    No, the old alloy thermostat housings were sacrificial.
    With the TDV6 they just made the entire engine the sacrificial bit! Alloy coolant outlet for TDV6
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tombie View Post
    Why? I never had a cast alloy thermostat housing last 7 years on any Holden, Ford or Mitsubishi....
    But any Ford I ever owned* changing the housing was a 15 minute job. TDV6 not so much.

    *Admittedly all Falcons bar one Cortina.
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    Quote Originally Posted by BradC View Post
    No, the old alloy thermostat housings were sacrificial. They were effectively the anode for the cooling system and designed to be replaced in preference to the other metal parts the coolant was exposed to.
    Except six cylinder Falcons had alloy heads from the XD update in 1980. Of course, there are some who would say the entire head was sacrificial on the XD.....

    But my 1968 FIAT ( and many subsequent models ) also had an alloy head. With correct coolant corrosion wasn't an issue.
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    The "alloy head" badge, on the XE, always amused me, I was waiting for the model bearing a "rubber tyres" badge.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tins View Post
    Except six cylinder Falcons had alloy heads from the XD update in 1980. Of course, there are some who would say the entire head was sacrificial on the XD.....

    But my 1968 FIAT ( and many subsequent models ) also had an alloy head. With correct coolant corrosion wasn't an issue.
    Might have had an alloy head, but it still had an iron block. The pot metal they cast the thermostat housings out of had a high zinc content which protected both the head and the block. I tried to TIG one once as an experiment. It sure as heck wasn't aluminium.
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    Quote Originally Posted by V8Ian View Post
    The "alloy head" badge, on the XE, always amused me, I was waiting for the model bearing a "rubber tyres" badge.
    Yep. Some of the old marketing was great.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tombie View Post
    Yep. Some of the old marketing was great.

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