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Just an update:
Spent a few days last week, after work, replacing the Tstat, water pump, belt, and coolant. Everything went very smoothly, much to my surprise. A pretty easy task, even on Jack stands with a creeper. Flushed the cooling system a few times, didn't recover any plastic bits from the impeller, unfortunately.
The airlift tool is worth its weight in gold.
Got it all put back together and took it on a few hundred mile run up to a car show in Northern Michigan, in 90+ degree temps. Had to idle in traffic a few times and even sat at a coffee shop drive through with the wife for way to long 🙄🙄. Never budged above the 8 on the 180 mark.
Got home yesterday and let it sit for the night. When I got home from work today I pulled the oil filter (it was at the top mark on the dash when sitting from a recent oil change, so I wanted to recover a bit to get it down a notch or two). Inspected the oil to the best of my ability, and I see no signs of intermix in the oil.
I'm aware that it could take a bit to show up, but I see this as a good sign. I also know that there is going to forever be a risk of a plastic bit creating hotspots in the heads, as the impeller was chewed up a bit, but not a whole lot i can do about that aside from endless searching. Is there anything else I should be watching for over the next few hundred miles?
Overall, I'd say so far, so good.
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