Chris,
The Cleveland was originally designed to use the brass restrictor plate WITHOUT the frost plug, a water pump WITH a bypass passage, AND a CLEVELAND SPECIFIC thermostat.
Others have modified the original Cleveland design by adding a frost plug to the brass restrictor plate (as you have in yours), using a water pump WITHOUT a bypass passage, and using ANY thermostat.
John
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