At 11:12 AM 3/3/2005, you wrote: >Ken certainly knows more about all things mechanical than I do, but >why would you drain you coolant and then have to go through the whole >system bleeding process when you could just clamp off the lines and >top up as I have suggested? Perhaps it's to encourage(force?) people to change their coolant regularly. Actually, it just sounds like a case of "cheap insurance" to me. If I was changing an oil cooler for a customer, I think I'd probably mandate a coolant and associated hose change just to mitigate perceived liability. If I've learned nothing else in my own line of work doing repair and replacement, it's the principle of "last man buys". In other words, if a part fails and you were the last one to touch it, the failure will be seen as YOUR fault, even if the part failed for reasons unrelated to the work you did. If I was changing an oil cooler, I'd change the hoses going to it as well rather than risk reusing the old stuff, stressing it in the process (clamp, loosen, yank; push, tighten, unclamp) and having it possibly spring a leak later. John Bange '90 Vanagon "Geldsauger" |
Please note - During the past 17 years of operation, several gigabytes of
Vanagon mail messages have been archived. Searching the entire collection
will take up to five minutes to complete. Please be patient!
Return to the archives @ gerry.vanagon.com
The vanagon mailing list archives are copyright (c) 1994-2011, and may not be reproduced without the express written permission of the list administrators. Posting messages to this mailing list grants a license to the mailing list administrators to reproduce the message in a compilation, either printed or electronic. All compilations will be not-for-profit, with any excess proceeds going to the Vanagon mailing list.
Any profits from list compilations go exclusively towards the management and operation of the Vanagon mailing list and vanagon mailing list web site.