how hard to change stat on my r plate golf vr6

[speedmont 0]

i'm going to atempt to change the stat on my vr6, how hard is it to to, and were abouts is the stat, please help, i'm a novice,(and my spelling not to good either lol)

cheers

dave

[krave 0]

To get to the thermostat, you have to take the front end off. Well i have when ever i have done it. it is located on the front riught side of the engine, there is a pipe going diagnally across the front of the block, the right hand end goes into it, you cant miss it really. Its not hard to change, and you'l find it easy.

[speedmont 0]

what the whole front end aaarrgh, how many bolts ont the stat?

[krave 0]

three hold it to the block, if yours has been leaking, be careful that they are not coroded, and dont chew them due to this. they may be fine tho. the front end is a piece of pi** really. behind the fig lights there is a couple of 13mm bolts, undo these, disconnect the wiring that goes onto the front and rad hoses. Undo the bolts that hold the top of the crossmember ( bit that the bonnet latches onto) bonnet latch cable, and the whole front will come off together. Really only takes five. minutes.

Excuse my spelling too, plus my keyboard is broke.

[speedmont 0]

cheers for the info , mines not leaking, jus over heating, think i'll try getting it without taking off the front end though,me not that good.

cheers

dave

[craggsy 91]

Quite easy without taking front of car to peices.....take battery out, take coilpack off. ANd you'll get to housing quite easy then. Change it all whilst your doing it, so get a new housing and all seals.

As has been said be careful with allen head bolts as you can and will round em off if you are to heavy handed, so undo em slowly. Buy new ones if need be. Should take about an hour to get off and new housing on, then just fill it up with G12++ as it is now

[speedmont 0]

cheers, i don't have a new housing, so take it i'll have to be really careful then. coil pack easy to come off then?. you can tell i;m gonna be really pants at this lol

[craggsy 91]

coil pack is easy 4 allen head bolts as well. BUT remember where plugs go if ya take em off.

Id say change the whole housing and seals as it might not seal back up correctly as in warped slightly or you could crack it as its only plastic and at least 10yrs old now. Saves having to do it all again when it leaks....just some good advice really. I changed the lot when i did mine, crack pipe as well

[speedmont 0]

cheers for the info, i'll give it a go tomorrow see how i get on, got new seal thought just no housing, so fingers crossed. cheers again for advise

[spindat45 0]

As per Craggsy's replies. This can be done without stripping the front end down. Definately change the thermostat housing, crackpipe and ALL seals.

Check out the thread below from a couple of weeks ago for a slightly more detailed explanation

http://www.vr6oc.com/e107_plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?261070.post

Kevin

[speedmont 0]

hi all

tried the thermostat change, and the housing was damaged,at the bit that goes in to the block,and the over for the thermostat, has one bolt that wont come out aaargh. anyone got a spare housing and all the bits, don't need thermostat though, got a new one.

cheers

[ex911driver 0]

Hi , where is best place to buy thermostat housing and crack pipe? just been looking on gsf and ecp and cant see anywhere ? thanks

[craggsy 91]

I got mine from VW.....I just prefer buying from VW for most things. But my VW (TPS) always look after me now as im in quite often