I just had my engine repladced. Considering my van is 12 years old, and I had two hose problems in the last year, I opted to replace every single hose in the engine compartment including the fuel injection lines. The fuel injection hoses are a "must" replacement to ensure against fire, which has take the life of a number of vanagons. I also installed a new thermostat and Temp 2 sensor(blue) for the fuel injection. Flushed the cooling system and installed Dex-Cool phosphate free collant with Redline Water-Wetter. Engine runs with temp needle top edge just a hair over the bottom of the temp light. Runs the coolest I have ever seen, but of course this is a rebuilt engine, with nearly everything new. But before rebuilding, from the day I bought it, it ran with the needle bottom edge at the top edge of the coolant light on the temp gage. John Rodgers "88 GL Driver Douglas Demarest wrote: > What other components should one > > a) definitely replace or > b) consider replacing > > while doing the head gasket job. > > My 86 Vanagon has 99,000 miles and appeared to be running perfectly (oops, > jinx) before I noticed the head leak. > > Thanks again, > > Doug |
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