your secret is you know all the 300 lubrication points on a Vanagon, not fair for the rest of us :) alistair
On 5-Nov-10, at 9:25 PM, Scott Daniel - Turbovans wrote: what's wrong with me ! ? all I do is feed it coolant until it won't accept anymore ... and put in more anytime there is a space for more in the pressure bottle. and keep the both heater valves open .. and the final trick .. just top it up after every warm-up cool down cycle .. usually about 5 cycles.. each time it cools down there's some space at the top of the pressure bottle. top that up. just don't know what's wrong with me.. I get dead vanagons going and alive again all the time, I do engine conversions .. valve and head jobs etc. etc. etc. .. and seldom to I go nutty bleeding. I never go nutty bleeding actually. if it needs a lot of bleeding something is wrong. I mainly keep feeding them coolant until they won't take anymore, and until there's no air space in the top of the pressure bottle when it cools down. not need for anything complicated or fancy at all. |
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