Re: OK to remove thermostat?

Agree : if cylinder head & piston rings have the same co
efficient of expansion*, * will be the same, designers
make sure of this.

| > wear will increase
Only if plain mineral oil ( coarse, obsolete, too thick when
cold, become tar by 121ºC ) is used.

| > unburned gas that slips by the rings and dilutes the oil in the
| > crankcase.
Only before PCV was invented, www.aa1car.com/library/pcv.htm.
He's decades out of date.