As a person that has owned the FUN Bus since new and an 84 that I bought when it was only a year old I can tell you that this part is simply known for failure. Both these vans had those tanks split near the seam. I have had some aftermarket one fail but generally they do the job. Engine overheating and combustion gasses into the cooling system will make short work of them. I like when they change shape and balloon. One thing about aftermarket parts. Keep records and receipts and use vendors that will take defective stuff back. The only way for suppliers-manufactures to give better stuff is that they know when their products fail. Both from a cost and awareness point of view. If they don’t know there is a problem they will not know a change is needed. Dennis -----Original Message----- From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of Neil N Sent: Friday, May 1, 2015 12:49 PM To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM Subject: Re: Adapt 1.9 Coolant Reservoir to 2.1 ? Thanks Stuart. The new tank I have access to is purported to be a true OEM made in West Germany "dealership" part. We'll see. ;) Neil. On 5/1/15, Stuart MacMillan <stuartmacm@gmail.com> wrote: .... > The > OEM tanks seem to last 20 to 30 years, but I doubt these aftermarket > tanks will.
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