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Date:         Fri, 23 May 1997 18:19:52 -0400
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         "W. Silva" <wsilva@capecod.net>
Subject:      Loss of Coolant

I was in line at an idle at the outside bank teller window for too long today and I heard this loud fan come on. I looked at my temperature gauge and it was up a little bit over where it usually is but not up to the line that I guess indicates that "you in deep doo-doo now". Anyway, the fan came on for about 10 seconds or so then shut off and did this again about 2 minutes apart about 3 more times. I left there and drove about 1/2 mile to a store, spent about 10 minutes in the store and when I came out the was a pretty steady stream of antifreeze coming out of my engine area. I opened the license plate hatch and checked the bottle and couldn't make out where the level was so I opened it. The antifreeze was almost up to the top of the bottle (or tank). After waiting a minute or so, the leaking stopped and the level in the bottle went back down to the line where it should be. I drove home from there (about 4 miles) and watched the gauge all the way. It was in the normal area and the van ran fine. Do I need to worry about this? Does this fan just come on when the engine is overheating? How do you keep from loosing the coolant? Why have I never heard this fan before???? Thanks for wisdom in advance Wendy

'85 Westy, "S-CAPE"


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