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<div>Mike, where do you find them so easily?</div>
<div>I searched napaonline and they don't list them (I searched for a 1970 Mustang 351C)</div>
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<div>I'm going to order one from FlowKooler unless you know of a common source for the Robertshaw unit.</div>
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<div>The PI forum has a thread on this:</div>
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<div><a href="http://pantera.infopop.cc/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/5650045562/m/4241021646/p/3">http://pantera.infopop.cc/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/5650045562/m/4241021646/p/3</a></div>
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<div>Jim</div>
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<div style="color: black; font-family: arial,helvetica; font-size: 10pt;">-----Original Message-----<br>
From: MikeLDrew <MikeLDrew@aol.com><br>
To: asajay <asajay@asajay.com>; detomaso <detomaso@poca.com><br>
Sent: Thu, Nov 14, 2013 8:45 pm<br>
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] please look at this pic of a water pump and tell me if it has a bypass hole<br>
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In a message dated 11/14/13 19 26 37, <a href="mailto:asajay@asajay.com">asajay@asajay.com</a> writes:<br>
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</font><blockquote style="padding-left: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 5px; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 255); border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid;" type="CITE"><font color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="2"></font><font color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="2">After 30 years... this is exactly what Tommy should already know.<br>
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>>>Indeed. I must say I'm appalled that a Pantera professional wouldn't understand the importance of using a 351C thermostat when you have a standard 351C water pump.<br>
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I spoke with a different vendor (who shall remain nameless) in very strong terms when I received a water pipe/hose kit on behalf of an unsuspecting European buyer. He had included a 351W thermostat instead of 351C. I called to find out WTF? He said he doesn't bother selling 351C thermostats because they are 'too hard to find'. I tried to explain that not running a 351C thermostat would cause overheating (and proper 351C thermostats cost the same and are available anywhere).<br>
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His response? "Ah, Panteras always overheat anyway--even if you put a big radiator in the front you can never really get them to cool right".<br>
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Well, DUH!? Of course not, if you've handicapped it with a 351W thermostat!!!! He still didn't get it.<br>
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I have since laid in a stock of proper RobertShaw 351C thermostats, and when somebody buys a water pipe/hose kit from that guy, when it gets here, I pull out the 351W thermostat (that he still includes) and replace it with a proper 351C unit.<br>
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Tara at Hall Pantera was doing the same thing, but to her eternal credit, when I explained why that was a bad thing, she was very thankful, and promised to switch to using 351C thermostats right away--the next time a hose/pipe kit from Hall arrived, sure enough, it had the right one included.<br>
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It was still a cheap Stant unit though, and as a matter of principle I substituted a RobertShaw example after conferring with the buyer. Call me superstitious, but after having suffered two breakdowns in my life due to thermostat failure (in non-351C applications), I have become somewhat of a fanatic about getting the best quality unit you can.<br>
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