Dave, Think about this. You pointed the nose down and then opened the bleed screw at the front of the vehicle. How exactly did you get that air to flow downhill? If you park your van with the nose up, I'd be willing to bet you'd still get some air out of the system. Karl Wolz ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Rodriguez" <DRodrig420@AOL.COM> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2001 9:03 AM Subject: Re: overheating
> In a message dated 7/7/01 7:06:01 PM US Eastern Standard Time, > jander14@WVU.EDU writes: > > > > My first act would be drive it up a bank, pop the grille, bleed her. > > How are you bleeding the system from up there? When I replaced the two main > water pipes on my '84, I pointed it DOWN a hill, and ran it at about 3500rpm > while I filled the reservoir from the back. Worked fine for me, and took all > of about 15 minutes. > > -Dave > '91 Jetta GTX 16V > '88 Jetta GLI 16V > '84 Vanagon > |
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