Combustion is getting into your coolant time to reseal the heads.It is not the cap.Mark -----Original Message----- From: Howard Fleming <hfleming@MOOSEBIRD.COM> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> Date: Tuesday, October 19, 1999 1:53 PM Subject: Re: Cooling System: Strange Phenomenon
Possible a failing pressure cap on the coolent tank? Howard
On 19 Oct 99, at 12:35, Eric Small wrote: > Everything seemed fine for several days of city driving > but when I got out on the freeway ...at speed... coolant began to get > pushed into the expansion bottle. Once in the expansion bottle it does not get > pulled back in as would be normally expected with the expansion cycle. If I go > too far the expansion tank will overflow. |
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