Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 12:09:14 -0400
Reply-To: Hans Brouwer <h.brouwer@SYMPATICO.CA>
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From: Hans Brouwer <h.brouwer@SYMPATICO.CA>
Subject: Re: Green Blood... Yeech!
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Hi Barry,
Check the fittings and 2 small coolant pipes on the oil cooler. Check page
17.7 and 17.8 of the Bentley. Perhaps the coolant is leaking from the seams
of the oil cooler. Any coolant leaking from that area would drip down the
oil filter.
Good luck,
Hans Brouwer
Cumberland, Ontario
86 Westfalia (Slow Poke)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Barry Mercer" <bjmercer@SYMPATICO.CA>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002 11:52 AM
Subject: Green Blood... Yeech!
> Hi All!! My westy has developed a coolant leak... it appears almost
> overnight. Here's what happened:
>
>
> The camper has been running like a charm. My son returned from a brief
> trip of about 200 km, reported no problems. I parked the westy in the
> garage and the next morning discovered a substantial amount of coolant
> on the floor. My heart sank. Always somthin' eh ?
>
> In any case I crawled underneath, crawled on top and I cant tell where
> the coolant is coming from. I don't think its the heads cause there is
> no long line of drips along the length of the motor. I do see that the
> drips are falling off the end of the oil filter!. Now, last summer we
> had a lovely trip to the US only to have the water pump drastically fail
> a car length away from the Canadian border at Kingston Ontario. That's
> another story. I had to have the westy towed to a shop where a new
> water pump and several water pipes were installed. I assume the water
> pump was new and not rebuilt.
>
> I think < actually I've ben praying> something has worked loose
> although its tough to tell when all I can do is crawl underneath the
> car... and stuff is so tightly installed in that area. The water pump
> does not appear to jiggle but will move ever so slightly when the belt
> is fiddled with.
>
> The camper still has coolant in the tank, the expansion tank, behind the
> plate / tag, is empty. It runs well, except for a noisy lifter, that
> comes and goes, and there is no smoke of any colour when I drive the
> vehicle... I just took it around the block last night.
>
> Any thoughts or suggestions would be appreciated.
>
> Barry Mercer
> Sudbury, Ontario
>
> Moo - 88 westy @ 176k Kms
>
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