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Quick question.

I bought a new VP thermostat, and just verified it is the correct part #. I'm used to thermostats sitting at the bottom of the housing, right on top of the engine block. This thermostat is too small to do that, but it can fit all the way up inside the thermostat housing. Is that where it really goes? 5.7Gi-E

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2007 358 T-5.7GXi IB
Previous Boats
'08 H240, '08 V318, '04 268, '04 225

HellO!
Where was the one you took out? Looked on the Volvo Penta site do not see the 5.7GI-E all but the E
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CAPTAIN ZERO

Got it figured out. Its a WAY different design than my truck. It goes all the way up into the housing, O-ring after it to hold it in place.

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2007 358 T-5.7GXi IB
Previous Boats
'08 H240, '08 V318, '04 268, '04 225

I have the same situation. I was told the thermostat goes in the top of the housing (upside down from the typical auto application) but I haven't confirmed that yet. There is a recess inside the top of the housing though. I was inclined to think that with the two cork gaskets that came with the stat would it would all fit in the recess. I have some cleaning to do in there first though, hence the delay in confirmation.

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Jon & Rhonda

'88 235 Sundowner
5.7L OMC Cobra
'01 F150 4.2L

It goes in the top of the housing, then the O-ring fits in after it to lock it in place. Kind of messed up way to do it, but apparantly it works!

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2007 358 T-5.7GXi IB
Previous Boats
'08 H240, '08 V318, '04 268, '04 225

This is actually an OMC design that Volvo kept after they bought out the sterndrive part of OMC...pretty much all 80s and 90s OMCs had this same design for the thermostat housing on the V-6s/V-8s...works just fine once you figure out that it's the little ring holding it in there...sometimes on older boats used in salt water there is so much corrosion in there you can't even see the rubber ring...

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88 Four Winns 200 Horizon
4.3 OMC Cobra-4bbl
2002 Walker Bay 10/2012 Suzuki 2.5
2008 Walker Bay 8

1998 Jeep Grand Cherokee 4.0/Selectrac
2007 Jeep Grand Cherokee 5.7 Hemi/Quadradrive II