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Date:         Mon, 26 Apr 2010 11:39:26 -0700
Reply-To:     Robert Keezer <warmerwagen@YAHOO.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Robert Keezer <warmerwagen@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Re: cooling system diagnostic help? Long,
              lots of info about whats been done so far.
In-Reply-To:  <r2y6bc66ccf1004260914h118212dcvfecd45f720e2aecb@mail.gmail.com>
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You're getting unmeasured or "false "air through the break which will run the engine rich, or not at all if the air leak is large,But it is not the cause of overheating. That you mentioned your thermostat is "unknown", I would look there now, as a stuck thermostat will cause a boil over.
Robert
1982 Westfalia  Golf powered and back on the road today


--- On Mon, 4/26/10, Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM> wrote:




From: Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: cooling system diagnostic help? Long, lots of info about whats been done so far.
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Date: Monday, April 26, 2010, 9:14 AM




  OK first thing I found this morning is my dipstick 'sleeve' is fractured.
I recall that when I was doing some other thing once and tried to run
without the dipstick in place the EFI was not working properly at all...High
idle, behavior...Do we possibly look here for an overheating condition due
to improper inputs to the 'brain' from a vacuum leak or something?  Grasping
at straws...
  Don Hanson


On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 7:03 PM, Don Hanson <dhanson928@gmail.com> wrote:


>   Hi all, recently I've noticed my cooling system is being weird.  The
> vehicle is an 84 vanagon with an inline four rabbit/jetta motor
>
Snipped...


>   So anyone care to make some suggestions what I should start with in the
> morning?
>
>   If you read all this, you may have something to guess from...
>
>   Don Hanson
>
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