Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2000 21:29:02 -0800
Reply-To: Max/Joyce Wellhouse <maxjoyce@IPA.NET>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Max/Joyce Wellhouse <maxjoyce@IPA.NET>
Subject: Re: '87 2.1L rad. fan hose nipples?
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I'm not the VW expert that Senor Bulley is, but just like the Rabbit and
Vanagon heater cores interchange and all water cooled VW's use the same
radiator cap(even saw one in an AutoZone store last week), methinks the fan
does double duty with the old Dasher fan and rather than using the thermo
switch to turn it on, a supply of coolant flowed through there and when the
coolant got too hot, the fan kicked in. I am surprised that VW didn't at
least have the decency to cover the holes with protective caps. Opps, I
forgot... that would've added another $20 to the cost of the vehicle!!...and
the replacement caps would've been $50 each. How stupid of me. BTW, didn't
Jenny Craig say she was going to start marketing a stain removal product
pretty soon. I think she has access to a good "before and after" piece of
clothing to do some testing on...
Dimwitted Moose and Flying Squirrel 90GL 141k daily driver-----Original
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From: Bulley <gmbulley@BULLEY-HEWLETT.COM>
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Date: Tuesday, January 04, 2000 1:45 PM
Subject: Re: '87 2.1L rad. fan hose nipples?
>from the "PURELY GUESSING" Dept. of Bulley-Hewlett...
>
>If your radiator fan on your van is similar to the one on a Jetta, this is
>not a water hose connection, but rather a place where a "cooling air" tube
>should be affixed. On the Jetta, the tube runs to in front of the radiator
>on the drivers side, and supplies cool air to the innards of the electric
>fan motor.
>
>If you decide to route your coolant through this, keep us posted. :)
>
>G. Matthew Bulley
>Bulley-Hewlett
>Corporate Communications Counselors
>www.bulley-hewlett.com
>Cary, NC USA
>888.468.4880 tollfree
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Richard C Welsh [SMTP:welshcu@PB.COM]
>Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2000 1:26 PM
>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>Subject: '87 2.1L rad. fan hose nipples?
>
>was flushing and filling the coolant system this weekend (among $300 and 40
>hours of other things) and noticed what look like coolant hose
>input/outputs on
>the back of my radiator fan. Anyone know what these are? are my nearby
>heater-core lines supposed to run into the back of the radiator fan? never
>heard of such a thing, but then again we are talking vanagon here. Also,
>the
>nastiest discharge in the entire cooling system was found in the overflow
>bottle; there was boil-over sludge clogging the rad. cap, overflow hose,
>and
>overflow bottle.
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