Date:         Tue, 26 Aug 2003 09:20:41 -0500
Reply-To:     John Rodgers <j_rodgers@CHARTER.NET>
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From:         John Rodgers <j_rodgers@CHARTER.NET>
Subject:      Re: Overheating while bleeding?
Comments: To: Keith Adams <keith_adams@TRANSCANADA.COM>
In-Reply-To:  <vanagon%2003082600192217@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
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Thermostats will fail open - and engine runs cold all the time, never
getting to temp except maybe on the hottest of days.

Thermostats will fail closed - as shows as engine overheat, event when
everything really is ok, except that coolant is not cooling because it
is blocked by failed thermostat.

Thermostats are cheap enough to replace. Protect that engine!!!!!

Regards,

John Rodgers
88 GL Driver

Keith Adams wrote:

>Fricking frackin van.  My 86 2WD Westy has been running a little warm (have to turn the
>heater on sometimes) so I figure I'd better bleed it to be sure there's no air in it.  So I park it
>up on the ramps, expansion cap off and it's up to temp, but I'm getting nothing from the
>thermostat bleed screw, some air from the rad, but I can tell if it's going in or coming out
>(coolant starts siphoning out of expansion tank?).
>
>Anyways, before getting any coolant out of the thermostat bleed screw or radiator bleed
>screw, my coolant boils over!  What a mess!
>
>Thoughts?  Bad thermostat (rad was warm, but no coolant from bleed screw).  Did I screw
>something up in the procedure?
>
>Ack.
>Keith Adams
>calgary.ab.ca
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