Date:         Fri, 19 Oct 2007 19:49:19 -0700
Reply-To:     Michael Elliott <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Michael Elliott <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Need a gasket
Comments: To: John Meeks <vanagon@gmail.com>
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John, thanks for the tips on Ye E-Z Bleed. Worked like a champ. Or at
least it seems to have. Is there a definitive test to determine whether a
bubble the size of a hamster isn't lurking someplace in that maze of hoses
and pipes and nozzles and elbows and flanges and loops and tees and
aitches and siphons and hookahs and stuff?

--
Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano
KG6RCR



On 10/19/2007 6:11 PM John Meeks wrote:

> On 10/19/07, Michael Elliott <camping.elliott@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Thanks, John -- I really appreciate it!
>>
>> Mellow Yellow's cooling bits have been reinstalled, coolant added, bubbles
>> accounted for, butt end lifted, rad bled until no bubbles, no drips
>> detected. Rad and hoses heat up, indicating flow of hot coolant, but that
>> bleeder valve at the front of the engine compartment doesn't do anything
>> regardless of being clockwise or counter-clockwise.
>>
> Mike,
>
> You won't see it doing anything. It just shunts any air that might be
> there back to the expansion tank where it flows out to the overflow
> tank.
>
> Congrats on the EZ bleed. It works at least as well as the front up
> engine revving run back and forth Bentley method.
>
> What did you do for that gasket?
>
> John
>