Date:         Sat, 5 May 2012 10:12:18 -0700
Reply-To:     Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Back From Mothballing, Mystery Coolant Leak - bump
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On 05/04/2012 04:48 PM, David Beierl wrote, in reference to the mystery
coolant leak:

"Might try starting with everything dead cold and putting ten psi in the
system (bicycle pump on the overflow nipple, pump in until it starts to
push back on the pump), then go up front with a strong light and watch
for a while."

Thanks.

I am seeing a leak. The rad appears to be crimped with a series of metal
tabs to the vertical pipe assembly that has the bleeder screw on top of
it. The leak is on rad side of the crimp -- to the right of the crimp as
you face the rad. It looks like yellow metal (brass?) under the black
paint so I think I'm looking at part of the rad.

The hole itself is too small to be seen.

This can't be good news.

--
Jack "Rocket j Squirrel" Elliott
Bend, Ore.
1984 Westfalia. A poor but proud people.
1971 "Ladybug"-brand utility trailer ca. 1972 from a defunct company in
San Clemente, Calif., now repurposed as The Westrailia.