-----Original Message----- From: scote@ptbo.igs.net [mailto:scote@ptbo.igs.net] Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2000 10:30 PM To: vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com Subject: Overheating on 1985 Westie Can anyone help? My 1985 Vanagon overheats in the following circumstance. The van starts fine and can run for hundreds of miles/klm. If I stop and allow the van to idle it is still fine but when I start up again the van overheats and the light starts flashing. At first I thought it was the termostat. I was in a little town up north, no VW dealer. The mechanic changed the thermostat. Said it was the right one he had checked. Stated he had a hard time getting the coolant back in the system. A hundred klm later I stop, coolant begins spewing out the back. Fill up. Drive on. Several hundred klm later stop again. Overheats. Several VW dealers have checked van and tried to make it overheat. It will not. Fan runs when just idling. I have bled system. Changed pressure cap. Van still overheats after running on highway. Can anyone help? Thank you Susan |
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