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Date:         Fri, 7 Sep 2007 08:19:48 -0700
Reply-To:     neil N <musomuso@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         neil N <musomuso@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: No more overheating!
Comments: To: Geza Polony <gezapolony@sbcglobal.net>
In-Reply-To:  <vanagon%2007090711035378@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
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Was it an automatic? If so, add to that, low rpm's so coolant not circulating as much/fast. Yes/No?

Neil. (Westy still in air cooled land)

-- Neil Nicholson. 1981 Air Cooled Westfalia - "Jaco" (Bustorius)

http://web.mac.com/tubaneil

Please send fav Vanagon/Westfalia links to me at: musomuso1963@hotmail.com

On 9/7/07, Geza Polony <gezapolony@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > Not to steal the thread or anything...but I did have trouble in near > freezing weather last year, coming downhill from a campsite in the Sierras > in the morning before the engine warmed up. It just didn't get warm, no heat > from the heaters, nada. I checked the thermostat once home and it stayed > closed up to around 195-200* F, but replaced it anyway as I had a new one > sitting there. > > I think it's this combination of factors--downhill with no load on the > engine for many miles, 35* weather, starting cold with little warmup > time--that did it. > > Engine ran crappy and we froze. > > Now back to our originally scheduled programming. >


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