Date:         Tue, 9 Dec 1997 18:49:29 -0500
Reply-To:     Dennis Haynes <dhaynes57@EMAIL.MSN.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon mailing list <Vanagon@Gerry.SDSC.EDU>
From:         Dennis Haynes <dhaynes57@EMAIL.MSN.COM>
Subject:      Re: Over heating problem
Comments: To: "Ed Berlett, Music" <E7M7BER@TOE.TOWSON.EDU>

Have a leak down test and a hydrocarbons in the coolant test performed.
This will tell you weather or not you have an internal head gasket problem.

Dennis

-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Berlett, Music <E7M7BER@TOE.TOWSON.EDU>
To: Vanagon@GERRY.SDSC.EDU <Vanagon@GERRY.SDSC.EDU>
Date: Monday, December 08, 1997 11:37 AM
Subject: Over heating problem


I've been lurking for a whole week now.  Time to ask some newbies questions.
I
have tried to find the answers in the archives so please be patient.

I have an overheating problem with the '84 vanagon.  There is no sign of
coolant on the ground.  Our VW mechanic figures there is a leak at the head.
Until now I had thought this was a coolant leak.  After a recent post I see
that there are different gaskets at the head and that there could actually
be
an exhaust leak into the coolant system.

What should I do to figure the exact problem?


Ed & Heather

84 Vanagon
86 Synchro