CAUTION
- Wear working clothing, including a cap, protective goggles, and protective shoes during operation.
- Ensure engine has cooled down before opening cooling system, bodily harm may occur if system is opened hot.
- Be careful not to burn your hands, because each part in the vehicle is hot after running.
- Be sure to tighten fasteners including bolts and nuts to the specified torque.
- Place shop jacks or safety stands at the specified points.
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- Lift-up the vehicle.
- Remove under cover.
- Drain engine coolant completely.
- Remove bolt which installs water by-pass pipe of oil cooler onto oil pump. (AT vehicles only)
- Disconnect radiator outlet hose and water bypass hose (AT vehicles) from thermostat cover.
- Remove thermostat cover and gasket, and pull out the thermostat.
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- Install the thermostat in the water pump, and install the thermostat cover together with a gasket, CAUTION: When reinstalling the thermostat, use a new gasket. The thermostat must be installed with the jiggle pin (A) facing to front side. At this time, set the jiggle pin of thermostat for front side. Tightening torque: 6.4 N.m (0.65 kgf-m, 4.7 ft-lb)
- Fill coolant, check for leaks, recheck the coolant level.