>>. The tech let the van idle for about 20 minutes after I dropped it off while he was fiddling around with his equipment and when he was ready to hook everything up he noticed coolant leaking out of the rear part of the engine bay so he immediately shut it off and refused to do any more with it. << If it's overheating at idle the first thing I would check is the cooling system has been bled of all air. Coolant is not making the rounds from the front to the back. There is a procedure in the Bentley and probably the archives for jacking up the front and getting all the air out. It takes awhile BTW. Bryan |
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