Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2005 10:06:21 -0500
Reply-To: pete or nancy owsianowski <pnocean@EARTHLINK.NET>
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From: pete or nancy owsianowski <pnocean@EARTHLINK.NET>
Subject: Re: Wasserleaker -- we will soldier on, but how?
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Hi, Mike:
My leaks looked exactly like that. Little drops of coolant when the weather
got cold on either side of the engine coming down right at the gaskets. I
ran the engine up to temp and got under it with a bright light and saw the
coolant was coming from above both sides pf the engine.
It turned out to be leaking on right side (2.1 WBX) from the flange
connection and on the left from the Thermo housing and crapped out O rings.
Replaced the flange with the metal part, put in a new thermo housing and
rings and it is dry as a bone.
It was a happy day for Joe's Van!
Pete and Nancy
'87 Westy
"Joe's Van"
> Last night my wife and I decided to hop into Mellow Yellow, our 84
> Westy, and have a sunset dinner at the beach. We drove a few miles south
> on Highway 1 parked on a bluff overlooking the Pacific Ocean and ate
> while watching the sunset. We had pelicans, we had surfers, I had a nice
> bottle of Porter ale from the Stone Brewing Company.
>
> We talked about how much we love camping in Mellow Yellow. We talked
> about the disappointing fact that the the engine has developed the
> famous coolant leak at the head. And we decided that our choices were to
> get rid of her or fix the problem. We want to fix the problem.
>
> Though I have replaced my 71 bus's engine myself, I just don't feel like
> tackling the considerably harder job of pulling the engine to do the JB
> Weld fix on the heads, or anything like that. I've got a full-time job,
> I'm a student and a father, yada yada yada, and the bottom line is that
> I just don't have the inclination to do the work myself.
>
> I can take it to Brad's Foreign Auto, in Encinitas (California), nearby.
> A list member recommended them, and they did some brake work on my 71
> bus -- they do seem to know what they are doing.
>
> But I need a plan before I give them Mellow Yellow. Find a good rebuilt
> 1.9l WBX? Are there such things? Hand them a printout of how the JB Weld
> the cracks and ask them to do it? Find a Subaru Legacy engine, buy a
> conversion kit and say, "Here, do this"?
>
> Though I'd like them to do the work, I just don't know what work I want
> them to do.
>
> Folks - what's the reasonably-priced approach here that won't make a
> shop crazy?
>
> --
> Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
> 71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
> 84 Westfalia: "Mellow Yellow (The Electrical Banana)"
> KG6RCR
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