Barry Armitage wrote: > In a similar vein, I've looked a few times, but haven' been able to find > anything on the web site about changing coolant and bleeding the system > on my '89 Syncro. I understand about the type of coolant to use, but I > can't find anything on the steps in changing it. An earlier post about > parking the van on an incline convinced me that I needed more > information. > > Barry Armitage Dear Barry and other newbies to the water cooled bus like myself, I am one of the lucky ones as the Vanagon Official Factory Repair Manual (Bentley) came with my '87, and before that with my '72. There are 4 pages covering the draining and filling of the cooling system. There _is_ more to it than my previous swedish cars ('59 PV544 & '75 245DL.) Has nobody put these fundamental details online? -- David Bogle '72 Campmobile 2.0L '87 Vanagon GL Syncro Westfalia |
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