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Date:   Tue, 4 Jan 2000 00:23:44 +0100
Reply-To:   Robin Oomkes <robin.oomkes@SWIFT.COM>
Sender:   Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:   Robin Oomkes <robin.oomkes@SWIFT.COM>
Organization:   S.W.I.F.T. sc
Subject:   Re: Real Block heater for Frost-plug-Challenged Westies!
Comments:   To: Marshall Ruskin <mruskin@PANGEA.CA>
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Marshall Ruskin wrote:

> > 5. The cold coolant flows into the heater, and as it warms it rises, causing > a circulating action

Will this work on a Vanagon? With all those gallons/litres (I won't be caught again) of coolant, and all those feet/meters of pipes, will the heat actually make the full circuit to the engine and back? Just a thought.

Robin 90 Vanagon Atlantic TD 84 Westy Joker D (fs)


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