Reply to "Erica needs to get hosed....."

OK, short story is that I won.....without needing to pull the engine out! It was not easy.....pardon me for not taking any pictures of the process.....

......but after chiselling with various chisels, and punches....getting the grinder out to be able to sharpen a punch to a pin prick....and more hammering and sucking left over water out with the shop vac...and THEN punching the remains into the water jacket...ooooohhh nooooo! Wasn't into taking pictures......

.....so time passed, I used my magnet on a stick to try and find the missing piece of the insert..... Finally after shining my flashlite in the hole....I determined that the cavity beneath the t-stat was part of this passageway!

Got a trusty piece of clothes hanger out and manged to locate the little piece of tin....and pushed it back into the hole area......and chiselled on it some more....trying to collapse it and either cut it in half or bend it in half.....

Finally, a thought hit me..... why don't I try to drag it into the area below the t-stat where the cavity gets bigger! Good idea!!! Was able to then retrieve it with the MOS (magnet on stick)!!!

Cleaned up the hole in the cast iron where chisels left marks and dragged the MOS around a bit to clean out more metal stuff....

Slathered the new metal insert (C5AZ-8555-A 5/8" by 2.5" long cut to length) with a little blue silicone and started digging for a big hammer.... Got the tube started carefully and then started wanging away! Stopped to put in my brass insert deal and continued to wail away......as much as you can in 5-6" of space!!!

Remember...window is just above you....!!!

I had a mark on the tube and it went in nice and smooth, actually fairly easily all considered....pushed it in about another 1/8" and decided to leave it there!!!

Taa daa!!!