At 11:03 PM 2/21/2000 , - Lauren Pelzer wrote: >Anyway - it is in the shop now. Not my regular shop, but these guys have >worked on the van before. They called today and told me that it was going >to take longer than expected because (and here is my concern) they need to >take out the seats and pull back the carpeting to get to where the steam is >coming in. No doubt the steam is coming from your rear heater which is under the rear seat. If it suddenly got a big leak it will have dumped bunches of coolant all over the place. I'm assuming something happened like a hose split or came off -- otherwise I'd expect that you'd have smelled/seen coolant days before it emptied the system. Having these heaters leak is common (look at the archives for the last week, for example) but I haven't heard before of the sort of catastrophic leak you seem to have gotten. Of course there are lots of things I haven't heard of <g>. david David Beierl - Providence, RI http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/ '84 Westy "Dutiful Passage" '85 GL "Poor Relation" |
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