>I mechanic for 2 '91 GL's, mine and my daughter's. Hers had a leak in the rear >heater. After taking it apart we discovered that it is a genuine piece of junk. >i.e. it is of French origin and plastics are used extensively where they should >not be used. You gotta problem with the French??? My '85 has the same design and I think you are right, there are a lot of plastics where there should be metal but the front heater is also made by the French, and has the same use of plastic. The two halves of the plastic flange that the heater hoses go into and contains the regulator began to separate on mine, I reassembled them with that blue gasket stuff and it has done fine for the last few months--we'll see. My van has 135,000 miles on it and I don't think that it leaked for many of those miles, though. BTW, my '85 Jetta had the heater core problem as well and was the subject of an NHTSA recall. The core was also made in France. > >(BTW, Jim, I live in Ames during my real like altho I work at the U of M.) Have your read Jane Smiley's "MOO" yet, great book--she lives in Ames and it sounds a LOT like Ames to me. _________________________________________________________ Donald Baxter <dbax@mindspring.com> Atlanta, Georgia 404.874-3292 (home) 404.447.6831 (work) _________________________________________________________ You know why the reason why some nights you don't have a dream? When there's just blackness? And total silence? Well, this is the reason: It's because on that night you are in somebody else's dream. And the reason you can't be in your own dream because you're already busy in somebody else's dream. -Laurie Anderson, Stories from the Nerve Bible (1993)
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