Date:         Fri, 23 Jul 2021 07:26:09 -0700
Reply-To:     Bruce Todd <beeceetee@GMAIL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Bruce Todd <beeceetee@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Aluminum coolant tanks
Comments: To: Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca>
In-Reply-To:  <05C78B19-A5EB-47A1-ABEE-4D6BB2710B8F@shaw.ca>
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We leave tomorrow morning for Pender Island for 3 nights and then onto
Cowichan Lake for another 3 - so the 27th is when we ferry over to
Vancouver Island.

Looks like the Islands are the place to be this year due to all the fires
and smoke elsewhere in the Province.  Considering cancelling our Okanagan
trip later in August if things don't improve and invite friends and family
to Vancouver instead.

It will be a pretty packed van as I am planning to haul a propane fire pit
with us.  Last trip I was able to strap it into the soap dish, but with the
ferries it will push the height requirement.  I was hoping it could fit
into the spare tire holder - but no luck.  I have the day to be
strategic on figuring out where everything should get stored.

Good thing I have a degree in spaceology.  :)

Bruce






On Thu, Jul 22, 2021 at 9:06 PM Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> wrote:

> Good news, and I’m very glad it wasn’t a weld.
>
> When are you heading to the island Bruce?
>
> Alistair
>
> > On Jul 22, 2021, at 9:00 PM, Bruce Todd <beeceetee@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Update - I must take back my wrong backyard mechanic diagnosis of the GW
> > aluminum expansion tank.  Dropped the van off at the mechanics this
> morning
> > and showed them where I thought the leak was.  Of course nothing was
> > dripping at the time even at operating temp.  I quickly placed my finger
> > under the tank and was able to get a little coolant to show the mechanic.
> >
> > Anyway came back to pick the van up and the tank was still in place - so?
> > It was actually a hose at the clamp - or so it seems.  I guess coolant
> was
> > travelling from the hose along the bottom of the tank and then dripping
> > down.   The hose was cut back a iittle and the van pressure and road
> tested
> > - coolant topped up  and things are all good in Vanagon land again.
> > Charged me for 0.6 of an hour - no parts.
> >
> > So - sorry GW if tanks sales plummeted over the past 2 days or so.  I
> think
> > they are all out of stock anyway.
> >
> > Bruce
>
>