Well it shouldn't matter on a johnson because the t-stat is on the backside of the flow to the pee-stream. Even if the stat is plugged you can still have a pee stream. Does it have a pee hole?? Lots of the old ones didn't. You can add one pretty easily though. What is it doing exactly??
"But if serving the Lord seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.” Joshua 25:15