If you keep the tvs switch in place, it wont leak. It is threaded into the thermostadt housing, but it is solid....the bottom doest actually open up. It simply a copper part that is sensitive to heat. Once it is hot enought it allows vacuum to circulate through the lines. Antifreeze doesnt circulate through the vacuum lines.
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