Date:         Wed, 30 Jan 2008 21:47:56 -0500
Reply-To:     "Peter T. Owsianowski" <pnoceanwesty@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         "Peter T. Owsianowski" <pnoceanwesty@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: uh-oh
Comments: To: Allan Streib <streib@cs.indiana.edu>
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I checked under the '87 one Fall morning and was freaked out to see coolant
leaks on either side of the heads on the garage floor.  Turned out to be
that cheap plastic flange on the passanger side and the thermo housing on
the driver's side wall.  Both had cracks where the coolant was seeping out.
Didn't do it over the summer, only when it got colder.


Pete
'79 Westy "Aardvark"
'87 Westy "Joe's Van"
WWW. Busesbythebeach.com


Are you sure the coolant is not coming
from some other place than the head gaskets?


On 1/30/08, Allan Streib <streib@cs.indiana.edu> wrote:
>
> I'm coming down on the side of NOT using any of that "magic" leak
> fixer.  I'm not facing a roadside emergency here so there's no need
> to do anything hasty.  My feeling, if it can plug a leak it can plug
> a radiator.  Maybe not a lot, but probably at least a little.  I know
> some of you will have used it and had no problems, great.  But it's
> just not the "right" way to fix it, for me.
>
>