Thermostat replacement?

It is the top upside down U shaped piece where the bolt would go in, I was told it can be fixed w/ jb weld, what do u think?

JB weld is amazing stuff. I used it to fill in a threaded hole that retains the timing cover of my 1992 Taurus because I broke off a mounting bolt in and drilled in an angle, bad thing.

I filled the hole with JB weld, covered it up with masking tape and waited a day for it to harden. Next day I mounted the timeing cover, used a drill bit long enough to go through the timing cover and into the engine block, tapped the hole for a couple of Helicoil inserts after removing the timing cover, job was done and holding.

If you can, use the thermostat housing as a guide to drill into the intake manifold, it'll help you stay straight. You may have to buy a Helicoil kit of it but it's worth it. Better than paying for a new or even used intake manifold and all the other work involved to replace it.

Good luck.

Thanks, we got the jb weld on now and letting it sit over night so hopefully tomorrow we will be able to put it back together, thanks for the feedback :)

Let us know how you did.

Well the jb weld did not work as soon as we put any kind of pressure on it to put the bolt in it came back off so we put in bolt with a large washer on the end to hold it tight against the thermostat housing and I cant believe it but its holding. Lol. So as long as it holds we can put off paying for a new manifold or having someone weld it on. Thanks for the tips :)