Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 12:32:49 -0500
Reply-To: Tom Miller <tmiller@VCMAILS.COM>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Tom Miller <tmiller@VCMAILS.COM>
Subject: Re: Coolant going from expansion into refill tank and overflowing
refill tank
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Does anyone have the part numbers for the green o-ring used on the cylinder
head to liner seal and the flat metal seal that goes on top of the liner for
2.1 WBX engines?
Thanks!
TEMiller
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dennis Haynes" <dhaynes@OPTONLINE.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 7:08 PM
Subject: Re: Coolant going from expansion into refill tank and overflowing
refill tank
> Internal head to cylinder seals leaking or cracked heads. I know, not
> the answer you wanted to hear.
>
> Dennis
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf
> Of tabe johnson
> Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 3:59 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Coolant going from expansion into refill tank and overflowing
> refill tank
>
> Hi Everyone,
>
> (Per Bentley, the refill tank is the one you can get at through
> the license plate door; the other is called the expansion tank)
> My 1987 Westy puked coolant into the refill tank twice last
> summer during and after long hot highway drives. I bled the
> system and did nothing else.
>
> The other day the coolant level light went on. Sure enough,
> the refill tank was overfull and the expansion tank was way down. I
> refilled and bled and the same thing happened after a highway
> drive the next day. I noticed a steady stream of bubbles going
> into the refill tank when the engine is warm. The rate of bubbling
> _may_ increase with engine RPM but I'm not positive of that yet.
>
> I checked the expansion tank cap. It holds pressure. I pressurized
> the system to 15 PSI with the engine cold. The pressure was
> 14.5 PSI after one hour. I watched the pressure when I started the
> engine. It didn't soar immediately. A compression test shows
>
> Cyl # Jan 2004 Jan 2005
> 1 160 145
> 2 155 157
> 3 150 143
> 4 170 165
>
>
> What's next? I'm gonna look at messages from the last couplea
> weeks too cuz I remember others going through similar things...
>
> Thanks for all suggestions,
>
> --tabe johnson
> xtabe@yahoo.com
>
>
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