Thread: My Alero #2
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Old 10-21-2010, 10:56 AM   #27
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Originally Posted by Chris2000 View Post
Changing the thermostat is really easy on the ld9 its just a matter of patience for ten minutes. After you undo the two thermostat housing bolts crawl under your car and there is a tube that has a bracket attached to the (oil pan?) or something like that and you just unbolt that (make sure u have a gallon sized bucket sitting under the thermostat) and then you can pull the two apart, and let the coolant all drain out.

I don't know what it is cause I've never worked on an LD9, but it's definitely not the oil pan. Oil/antifreeze mix = dead engine.
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