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Date:         Sun, 25 Oct 1998 09:01:42 -0800
Reply-To:     Earl Smith <earlsmit@ISLANDNET.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         Earl Smith <earlsmit@ISLANDNET.COM>
Subject:      Re: Cooling question
Comments: To: Todd Last <rubatoguy@WORLDNET.ATT.NET>
Comments: cc: vanagon@vanagon.com
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At 10:51 PM 10/24/98 -0700, you wrote: >I'm experiencing the following problem and am not sure what to start >checking for the solution. > > >I'll be driving along and the red coolant light will start flashing. I'll >stop and notice that the expansion tank is low on coolant, but the overflow >tank (behind the license plate) is filled to above the level of the cap. I had this problem several times the first year I owned Smoky. The first time it was because the rad was half full of gunk. It had never been cleaned. In those days I knew very little about Vanagons so took it to a good shop in Victoria. Cost me a hyndred dollars but I learned a lot. The second time the problem was caused by leaky head gasket. My son's friend is a mechanic and I had him change the head gasket on driver side. (The PO had done the other side before I bought the van.) Cost me around 300 with parts. The third time it happened was due to a hairline crack in the expansion tank. The replacement cost me around eighty dollars. I am getting very good at draining and bleeding the bleeding cooling system. That is why I am so interested in a proper bleed fitting for the radiator and the engine. I am tired of my driveway getting covered in coolant in spite of the baby bath I put underneath to catch the stuff. I recommend you get a copy of the KEP dissertation on repowering the Vanagon. The information, photographs and comments on the cooling system are truly enlightening.

Earl from Sunny Sooke, B.C. At the tip of soon-to-be-overloaded-and-sink Vancouver Island 84 ex-California Westie


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