the title says it all. im gonna change my thermostat tommarow in my bird i have a hypertech 160* thermo im swaping inplace of the stock 195*. is ti easyer to take the tb right off or not?

 

I always take off my throttle body. Be very careful not to snap off the bolt in the intake. Why in the hell couldnt of GM put studs in place of freakin breaking bolts?

 

I changed my thermostat about a month ago, I took the TB when I did mine too. I ended up taking the upper plenum off too just to make a little extra room. Taking the TB off isn't very hard you just have to take your time. When you unhook the cables on the drivers side of the TB, make sure that you hang on to the little clips that hold two of the cables down. I was almost finished reassembling everything and one of those little clips popped out of my fingers as I was sliding it on. I had to make a trip to town to get a new one.

 

The easiest way is to do it is to remove whatever is blocking you from getting a socket or wrench to the bolts. I did it the hard way because I did not disconnect the intake, throttlebody, and not even the intake. It took me 8 hours because the space was tight that I could only move the wrench 2mm at a time. I got it in there though. If you are tall or have large hands, you most likely won't be able to do it that way.

 

Why does everyone make this so difficult?
Think like a mechanic...
Box wrenches, sockets, swivels joints, off & back on road short time later on.
Really about a 1/2 hour job, 45 minutes.
Only need remove upper radiator hose & move aside the air inlet rubber hose, then get to work.
I think the only size ya need is a 13mm
Again think, of a lazy mechanic, who is through.
BUT A GOOD MECHANIC who does the job right, once.

 

My filler neck had metric bolt on one side and SAE on the other. I was like WTF. I had to go out and buy a special angled wrench because no socket would fit in there.

 

I agree with you 100%, I am suprised I hear this from people on this site. I believe in using the right tools to get the job done quickly and correct. sheesh if I see a mechanic who has less tools than I have I avoid him.

 

Wow, 8 hours to change the thrmostat. I would have given up if it was taking me that long. Removing the TB doesn't take really all that long. I've took mine off 3 times. The first time I took it off it took me around 45 minutes, the last time that I had it off (to do the thermostat) it took me like 25 minutes to take it apart and 20 minutes to put the TB and plenum back on. My biggest problem with the thermostat was scraping the old seal off because there isn't much room around the thermostat to manuver a scraper around.

 

I can remove and put back on my tb in less than 5 mins. I've taken it off half a billion freakin times, so I gotten pretty good at it. Make sure you put the thermostat in correctly not upside down. I use the swivel too while I changed my tstat. I like to have room so I dont mess anything up.

 

I made the install more difficult because I did not want to remove any of the intake components. Sometimes I like be difficult too.

 

thanks for all ur replies guys. ill just whip the tb off to make it easyer.

 

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