Sorry about the last partial post,

anyhow, I replaced by thermostat with a cooler one and was wondering about
the running temperature of the van.  I suppose it should be around 200
degrees farenheit (so about 90 celcius).  does that mean that the 87
degree thermostat is constantly opening and shutting as engine temperture
fluctuates.

I had convinced myself that I was going to put the stock thermostat back
in and now I am starting to worry that slight fluctuations in the
thermostat (maybe it opens at 90 degree instead of 87) and changes in the
the weather might be a problem.  I had a overheating problem before
changing this (but I did change the H2O pump at the same time).

so, any ideas?  I guess I'll probably change it back out sometime, maybe
at the end of the summer.

blake
84 westy