Dusterbd13
Dusterbd13 MegaDork
4/19/18 5:46 p.m.

And looking at remote thermostats for my challenge car, I came acrossed in the eBay ad for an E30 remote thermostat. Anybody have one? What size radiator hose does it take?

ShawneeCreek
ShawneeCreek Reader
4/19/18 7:58 p.m.

On my E30 (a 325iS) the remote thermostat was a secondary thermostat and only to take the heater core out of the loop. It looked like this:

Pretty small connections. The larger two were maybe an inch. The smaller one around 3/8". Is that what you are seeing?

Dusterbd13
Dusterbd13 MegaDork
4/19/18 8:12 p.m.

In reply to ShawneeCreek :

Yup. Apparently not what I was thinking it was.

 

Back to the drawing board. 

JBasham
JBasham HalfDork
4/20/18 12:49 p.m.

So do I understand the concept of a remote thermostat right?  It's a housing that allows the thermostat to be installed in the hose between the water pump and the radiator?  Just a fabrication/setup thing, not a functional change?

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