Usually it’s the radiator that goes first. Not a lot of mass and lots of surface area = a fast freeze.
Tom www.towercooler.com
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM] On Behalf Of Scott Daniel - Turbovans Sent: Friday, February 04, 2011 3:02 PM To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM Subject: Re: Freeze Plugs was Oops - I let the engine freeze
re You’d think a hose would go first. " assuming this is about freezing coolant and damage from expansion .. why would anyone think an rubber hose would fail from water freezing and expanding ? it's rubber.. rubber stretches nicely. it's the hard parts.. the plastic ones for sure ...I can see those splitting easily.. they just fail from age and heat anyway sometimes. Scott turbovans ----- Original Message ----- From: "Loren Busch" <starwagen@GMAIL.COM> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> Sent: Friday, February 04, 2011 8:42 AM Subject: Re: Freeze Plugs was Oops - I let the engine freeze
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 10:25 PM, Karl Wolz <wolzphoto@q.com> wrote: > You’d think a hose would go first. Unless the plug wasn’t quite seated > right or there was a bit of corrosion involved. > And so would I. But a good mechanic had been working on the cooling system and it was tight. Tight enough that it had split the "H" pipe two days before. The whole thing was a story of blind leading the blind, bullheadednes on my part and severe ignorance of the WBX cooling system. And one of the reasons I'm on a bunch of Internet Vanagon lists (many of which didn't exist at that time) and read the list wisdom and keep notes and my current Westy runs like a top and I have a top mechanic that takes care of what I can't do. That '85 is now history (RIP after a roolover). > > > _____ No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 10.0.1204 / Virus Database: 1435/3422 - Release Date: 02/04/11 |
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