Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2011 16:05:57 -0700
Reply-To: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
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From: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
Subject: Re: Stuck in Redding
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i'm on vanagon duty todary, here in Phoneix, OR ..
Exit 24 on I-5 in Southern Orgeon.
sounds like bleed the cooling system or possibly thermostat.
If you get overheated engine, but cool radiator ..
or just mysteryous 'unbleeding' of the cooling system ..
that's usually exhast gases getting into the cooling at a head or head
gasket.
Near Redding one time...had a vanagon doing that ..
I had to get cool water into it, bleed a little..
drive about 35 minutes until it did it again ..
stop, cool down some, fill coolant, bleed a little ..go another 35 minutes
and repeat,
until I got to Marin County north of San Francisco .. had to
stop,cool.fill,bleed about a dozen times but I got there just fine no
damare.
new head gaskets fixed it just fine.
the thin green o-rings at the top of the barrels..
those get hard after a while....coolant can get to the metal rings at the
top of the barrels..eat at those some ..or at that junction over time..
then exhaust starts seeping into the coolant in the engine .
until it displaces enough of the coolant in the engine to make it overheat.
It's a regular vanagon thing ..lol !
Really ..head gaskets and a nice valve job should be done about every 8
years or 80,000 miles on waterboxer engines.
Scott
www.turbovans.com
541 951 8151
----- Original Message -----
From: "Werner Schink" <werner.calnr@SBCGLOBAL.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Saturday, April 02, 2011 9:49 PM
Subject: Re: Stuck in Redding
> Unfortunately, he's stuck halfway between. Hey, but it's part of having a
> Vanagon, right?
>
> No Vanagon -- No Adventure !
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
> Mike Miller
> Sent: Saturday, April 02, 2011 9:39 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: Stuck in Redding
>
> Scott is north, in Oregon. Werner lives south in Sacramento. Where he has
> lots of resources available to him.
>
>
> On 4/2/11 9:05 PM, "HotelWestfalia" <zolo@FOXINTERNET.NET> wrote:
>
>> I think, you are also not too far from Scott the Turbovan man.
>> Zoltan
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Werner Schink" <werner.calnr@SBCGLOBAL.NET>
>> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
>> Sent: Saturday, April 02, 2011 8:27 PM
>> Subject: Stuck in Redding
>>
>>
>>> Overheating in Redding. Thermo goes to 190 for a while then starts
>>> creeping
>>> up hotter and hotter. I'm close to Al's Kraut VW Service but he's not
>>> open
>>> weekends.
>>>
>>> Advice appreciated,
>>> Werner - not in Sacto
>>>
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