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Re: What the heck is going on here?
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Originally Posted by Captainfab
I have seen a couple in pickups, but mostly in medium duty trucks. But it seems like the Corvette's may have had that also? Did you loose the original fitting?
You could just eliminate the riser under the thermostat housing, and plug the port in top of the water pump, and be just fine. That is how most engines are.
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Captainfab is correct, medium duty trucks and cars of the 60s and very early 70s with SHP engines got the bypass. It was a safety precaution in case the thermostat stuck closed. Usually the bypass hose went into a nipple in the intake, not a spacer.
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