Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2001 13:56:01 -0700
Reply-To: Mark Dorm <mark_hb@HOTMAIL.COM>
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From: Mark Dorm <mark_hb@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: '90 Vanagon: Hose leaking antifreeze
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<P>I'm trying to understand what you're saying. Did you cut the hose and then stick the ink pen piece (is this from a bic disposable?) into each new end of hose and then tighten two clamps over each new end, so that now water flows through the ink pen? </P>
<P>Also, for a leak like this would either plumbers epoxy or marine epoxy work? <BR><BR></P></DIV>
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<DIV></DIV>>From: KI <KI@CLOUDFACTORY.ORG>
<DIV></DIV>>Reply-To: KI <KI@CLOUDFACTORY.ORG>
<DIV></DIV>>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
<DIV></DIV>>Subject: Re: '90 Vanagon: Hose leaking antifreeze
<DIV></DIV>>Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 13:04:13 -0700
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<DIV></DIV>>sounds like the same hose that burned right through on my vanagon on my
<DIV></DIV>>trip to death valley a couple of months ago. i had just come over monitor
<DIV></DIV>>pass and all of a sudden my engine started heating up. it had been laying
<DIV></DIV>>on top of my muffler. funny, the first
<DIV></DIV>>thing i tried was duck tape too, didnt' work tho'. i did end up taking
<DIV></DIV>>the mouth piece of my camel back and plugging the too ends of teh hose
<DIV></DIV>>into it. filled the car up with coolant and made it to the next town and
<DIV></DIV>>it blew off, spewing all my coolant out again. luckily i made it to a
<DIV></DIV>>littel store and bought some hose clamps and cut a 2 inch piece of an ink
<DIV></DIV>>pen and jammed the two ends into it and clampled them down. made it to
<DIV></DIV>>death valley and then to taos nm and then all the way back to san
<DIV></DIV>>fran. i still haven't fixed it yet as i'm waiting on the tiico engine and
<DIV></DIV>>don't want to spend any more money on the current one. jsut did a trip to
<DIV></DIV>>umpqua nat forest in oregon and it held up fine. i would def. bleed the
<DIV></DIV>>cooling system.
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<DIV></DIV>>
<DIV></DIV>>On Sat, 26 May 2001, Don Oldenburg wrote:
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<DIV></DIV>> > Hi Everyone--
<DIV></DIV>> >
<DIV></DIV>> > My '90 Vanagon blasted out a load of antifreeze the other day soon as I
<DIV></DIV>> > parked it after driving it a while. I checked around the engine compartment
<DIV></DIV>> > this morning and followed the hosing from the reserve tank until I found the
<DIV></DIV>> > leak.
<DIV></DIV>> > Looking at the engine compartment from the back and on top: Hosing from
<DIV></DIV>> > the reserve tank sort follows around the top inside of the comparment
<DIV></DIV>> > opening; on the left side, there's a T-junction with a black rubber hose,
<DIV></DIV>> > about 1/2 inch round and maybe 14 inches long to where it gets larger in
<DIV></DIV>> > diameter (maybe 3/4 or an inch) for about four inches to where it connects to
<DIV></DIV>> > the left-side cylinder head on top.
<DIV></DIV>> > Right before that rubber hose fits onto the metal engine connection,
<DIV></DIV>> > there's a break where the antifreeze leaks when pressured. Got the part #:
<DIV></DIV>> > 025-121-058-M (and maybe the same number ending in C instead of M might
<DIV></DIV>> > work)...
<DIV></DIV>> > I tried searching the archive but for some reason can't get in at all,
<DIV></DIV>> > so....
<DIV></DIV>> >
<DIV></DIV>> > My Question: The hose looks easy enough to remove (clamp on each end).
<DIV></DIV>> > I'm thinking I could take it off, dry it good, and do some heavy duty taping
<DIV></DIV>> > over that rupture, and put it back on--so I could at least drive it for a few
<DIV></DIV>> > days until I get the replacement hose special ordered. Is that adviseable or
<DIV></DIV>> > not?
<DIV></DIV>> >
<DIV></DIV>> > Second Question: If I take that hose off, do I run the risk of getting
<DIV></DIV>> > air in the system (and if so, what's the trick to doing this then and not
<DIV></DIV>> > getting air in then system?), or will it just pull more antifreeze off the
<DIV></DIV>> > reserve once I hook it back up again and start it?
<DIV></DIV>> >
<DIV></DIV>> > It looks like a simple fix--but I've done simple fixes before that ended
<DIV></DIV>> > up causing bigger headaches. Any advise would be appreciated.
<DIV></DIV>> >
<DIV></DIV>> > Many thanks,
<DIV></DIV>> >
<DIV></DIV>> > Don Oldenburg
<DIV></DIV>> > McLean, Va.
<DIV></DIV>> > elevenhalf@aol.com
<DIV></DIV>> >
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