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The newer ones look a lot like a watercooled car thermostat- basically, you have a spring that compresses/expands with temp. All Mexico bugs came this way over the last few years. Functionally, they're about the same I understand. On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 23:30:14 -0600, Russ Wolfe <russw@classicvw.org> wrote: > On Fri, 2004-11-26 at 23:05, Jim Adney wrote: > > > > Speaking of thermostats: > > > > On 25 Nov 2004 at 17:14, Ben Doughney wrote: > > > > > You can repair them if it is only a small hole- I repaired one on my > > > Type 4 because I couldn't find any new ones. > > > > I don't know for sure, but I'd be willing to bet that the thermostats were > > originally "filled" with a few drops of something that boils at the right temp. > > Air would behave differently, but it would certainly do something. > > > > Has anyone here been around when one of these popped? Did you smell anything? > > It is an alcohol type fluid in there. I broke on the other day trying to > clean crap out from between the bellows. > > > > > > I read somewhere that they are not making the brass bellows style for > > > Type 1/3 anymore now? > > > > I guess that's right, but there's a more traditional style available. > > The ones I have seen advertised, look a lot different. I do have a few > good ones laying around. > > > > -- > Russ Wolfe > '71 FB AT > '66 FB MT > '64 T34 (not running) > '65 T1 (not running) > russw@classicvw.org > http://www.classicvw.org > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > >