So I've had an odyssey with my cooling system...long story short, I've had to take the big aluminum piece that the thermostat housing bolts into off numerous times. There's a metal pipe with an o-ring gasket on it that slides into this big aluminum piece. I have coolant leaking from there because the o-ring gasket is slightly chewed up...and also I bent the pipe slighty. Should I get a new pipe too?

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just get a new o-ring.... the pipe too if its cheap.

 

so wait, you drive a minivan?

 

lol. thats what i first thought too... i had to reread the first sentence twice h:

 

You'll need to replace the O-ring and the tubing also if it's bent.

 

you bastards h:

 

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The metal pipe isn't that bent...holy hell I don't want to replace it because I think I have to remove a lot of the engine.

 

just kinda push it back out and buy a new o-ring

 

ask for a new O-ring and smother that shit with some Honda bond.

I used Honda bond on my car and it worked wonders on my thermostat. Get a bottle of aluminum radiator leak fixer thing too.