[pheengurs]

Originally Posted by jayoldschool

If it were mine:

- run a stock thermostat, no drilled hole (if it needed it, GM would have drilled a hole)
- get the cobbled together fittings and metal hoses off of there, and run straight rubber with one good stainless worm clamp on each end

I bet the hoses will stay in place.

yeah, that's sort of an option... the reason for the oddball setup at the heater core is because the only replacement I could get at the time was missing the extra bends that a stock one has...