Hello, Last summer I had the same problem as described below with my 89 Westy. It was the head gasket. Joel -----Original Message----- From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com]On Behalf Of Stephen DeMocko Sent: 2-May-05 19:55 To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM Subject: FW: 85 vanagon 1.9 gl Eliseo, My '85 did the same thing. I replaced everything in the cooling system from the water pump to the radiator, before determining that I had a blown compression cylinder ring (head gasket). It was small enough that I could see no mixing of oil or coolant. What seemed to be happening is after a thirty min. drive I would introduce enough gasses into the coolant system that I didn't get enough flow through the radiator. Secondly I was over pressurizing the system and coolant was pushed out of the reservoir and into the expansion tank, not to be sucked back when cool. You might try driving around with your front grill off and a 13 mm wrench with you. As you get to wherever, open up that bleed screw, mine hissed out six or seven seconds of gases before coolant started to flow. I hope its something easy like the thermostat, because pulling the heads was not fun. Good luck Stephen
-----Original Message----- From: eliseo escobedo [mailto:eliseolee@HOTMAIL.COM] Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 2:27 PM To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM Subject: 85 vanagon 1.9 gl My 85 vanagon is still overheating I can drive it for 20 miles then it runs hot. so I took the thermostate ot and still runing hot
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