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Don't want to single out anyone, but my experience involved buying a thermostat housing off an SVT engine from someone here. Picked it up from my mailbox and turns out it looked like it was left under a foot of water for the last couple years:
-Screws completely rusted you couldn't pull them out.
-Corrosion just everywhere.
-Plus the part where the o-ring fits where the housing meets the engine was warped slightly and showed signs of cracking. It would have leaked.
Part was advertised as "does not leak". At least it wasn't a big financial loss though. I found a new one for almost the same I paid for this rusty pos.
Lesson?: buyer beware.
-Screws completely rusted you couldn't pull them out.
-Corrosion just everywhere.
-Plus the part where the o-ring fits where the housing meets the engine was warped slightly and showed signs of cracking. It would have leaked.
Part was advertised as "does not leak". At least it wasn't a big financial loss though. I found a new one for almost the same I paid for this rusty pos.
Lesson?: buyer beware.