----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2001 =
6:36
PM
Subject: Uh-oh, cooling system =
way
pressurized
Last Wednesday nite my kids and =
I drove the
5 hours to Killington, VT to catch the tail of spring skiing (turns =
out it
ain't the tail at all, they are planning to be open well into =
June!). At
about 11:30 at nite on Rt. 91 North in the woods of Vermont with not =
another
car in sight, the coolant lite starts flashing. Took the first =
exit,
pulled under a light and opened the engine hatch. Main coolant =
tank
nearly empty. Overflow tank, doing just that, in fact squirting =
out the
breather hole on the top. Allowed it to cool, topped the main tank =
with some
water and continued on. OK for the next 4 days around =
Vermont. On
the way home today, blink, blink again. Same drill. Got home and =
investigated. Every bleeder burped air or something. Many =
hose
connections were weeping as if under way too much pressure. The =
engine
is a rebuild with about 20k on it, but I'm thinking that I must be =
looking at
combustion pressure getting into the cooling system; ie: failing head =
gaskets.
Tell me I'm wrong; pleeeeese!
Gary