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• Re: cooling system design
  Historical mailing list - David Brodbeck
  Mon, 8 Mar 2004 16:45:54 -0500
  ...I've heard claims that the "free oxygen" introduced to a cooling system by having air entering and exiting the expansion tank increases corrosion...
• Re: Propane and beer
  Historical mailing list - Frank Grunthaner
  Thu, 1 Nov 2001 23:43:44 EST
  ...Its a law, no variation with volume in the two phase system. Now as to cooling beer by immersing it in liquid propane, ... there...
• Re: cooling system modification, OK?
  Historical mailing list - Joe L.
  Sun, 29 Oct 2000 12:20:19 -0500
  ...cooling system modification, OK? Hi, I'm almost complete in the following task, My '84 vanagon had a rusted return line on the cooling...
• Re: The 2.1 coolant system bleeding links
  Historical mailing list - Bob Stevens
  Mon, 3 May 2004 08:51:43 -0600
  ...With the bleeder bolt removed from the radiator, fill the cooling system with coolant. Let stand ten or fifteen minutes with heater valves open...
• Re: Portland OR Vanagon Engine Swap Shop
  Historical mailing list - SDF ( aka ;jim lahey' - Scott )
  Mon, 17 Aug 2015 23:57:59 -1000
  ...is convert the van to 2.1 cooling system. There are downsides to that too though, such as many more cooling system parts made...
• Re: Radiator fan- '91 Carat
  Historical mailing list - Frank Condelli
  Wed, 1 Jun 2016 05:11:18 -0400
  Exactly ! Here in my shop any time any work is done that has any relationship to the cooling system I do this test: Let...
• Anyone have a 3rd Party External Oil Cooler or Transmission Cooler installed?
  Historical mailing list - Robert Stewart
  Tue, 19 May 2009 14:59:22 -0400
  ...This adds the transmission cooling load to the engine cooling system (this is less than ideal) and the results of a failure of this...
• Re: Bleeding the cooling system (some more)...
  Historical mailing list - Jeff Birk
  Tue, 12 Dec 2000 07:39:47 -0500
  ...in your van which may be clogging any part of the cooling system, if in doubt, check flow on radiator<<< JB '89 Wolfsburg GL...
• Re: 2.1 Cooling System Oddity: Since we are on the topic of coolant issues. (kinda long)
  Historical mailing list - Mike
  Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:00:13 -0500
  ...2.1 Cooling System Oddity: Since we are on the topic of coolant issues. (kinda long) Thanks Greg and Dylan - Your experiences and explanations...
• Re: Cooling system hose diagram
  Historical mailing list - Ron & Marianne
  Wed, 24 Apr 2013 13:09:36 -0400
  ...Cooling system hose diagram Somewhere I have a table I downloaded about ten years ago that converts waterboxer hoses to over-the-counter hoses...
• cooling system failures
  Historical mailing list - Bj�rn
  Mon, 8 Jun 1998 10:36:27 -0700
  Let's start a thread where everyone can summarize which parts of the cooling system have failed when (at what age of the car...
• Cooling System Warning Light
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Fri, 23 Sep 2022 12:57:13 +0000
  ...some time for the system to pressurize after start up. The coolant being under pressure is important for cooling parts of the engine that...
• Re: Weep No More For Me
  Historical mailing list - Daniel Schmitz
  Wed, 12 Jul 2000 20:09:37 -0700
  ...I am familiar with the nature of closed cooling systems, just not with differential equations, which apparently are not necessary anyway when discussing the...
• Re: Smelly
  Historical mailing list - Mark A. Williamson
  Thu, 5 Nov 1998 12:48:26 +0000
  ...that connect the heater core to the cooling system (or depending on your perspective, the heating system!) or (2) a leak in your (rear...
• Re: Idle Control Valve
  Historical mailing list - j. karukas
  Mon, 22 Mar 2004 13:40:46 -0800
  Ever since a recent cooling system bleed on my '87, it has frequent high idle at around 2K, cold or hot. The ICV is...
• Re: WTB Oil Cooler bits? For adding to 1.9...
  Historical mailing list - Tyler Hardison
  Mon, 22 Aug 2016 16:19:28 -0700
  ...You will need to tie it into the cooling system and use a > shorter oil filter to clear the exhaust. If the van is...
• replacing all cooling hoses
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 21 Oct 94 14:24:06 PDT
  Hi, For my '83 Vanagon, I like to replace all its cooling system hoses. Besides the cost of dealer hoses bing ~$900, the sections...
• Re[2]: LOUD! cooling fan
  Historical mailing list - Don Gibbons
  Wed, 5 Aug 1998 16:02:36 -0400
  All of the cooling fans I have heard on vanagons were very quiet at low speed. It is only at the higher speeds are...
• Re: Answers to Questions of Cooling & Coolant
  Historical mailing list - Budd Premack
  Tue, 6 Oct 1998 00:38:40 -0500
  Dan, Your article on cooling systems was just referrenced onto the Vanagon mail list. It was wonderfully thorough, technically accurate, and best of all...
• Radiator Thermoswitch Testing?
  Historical mailing list - Brian Yonker
  Wed, 31 Jan 2001 17:15:48 -0500
  Hello all, Is there a way to test the cooling system electrical components? My cooling fan in my 86 Syncro has a mind of...
• Vacuum on cool down
  Historical mailing list - Jonc
  Tue, 5 Sep 2000 11:28:22 -0400
  ...if you keep your reservoir tank full and the system is tight and in working order... the cooling system will always be full... on...
• Engineering give me Cold power?; Capt'n she wont do anymorrgh!!
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 15 May 1997 22:40:08 -0400
  ...Is taxing the cooling system really a problem, folks in Kennedy Engineering say the system is "a massive thing that can cool a very...
• Re: Water Wetter questions...
  Historical mailing list - SDF ( aka ;jim lahey' - Scott )
  Sun, 12 Jul 2015 20:58:19 -1000
  ...and give the heat load created by the engine ...and the cooling system ability to cool... say it wants to run at 205 F...
• Re: Overflow coolant Tank
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Sun, 26 Feb 2006 09:16:20 -0600
  ...If you still get no rise in the overflow tank, yo have a bad cap and are over pressurizing your cooling system. With that...
• Re: Coolant Raise the front end?
  Historical mailing list - Karl Wolz
  Sat, 6 Jan 2001 22:32:09 -0700
  ...The (now) horizontal portion represents the rest of the cooling system. If you lift the back end of the van, you'll allow air...
• Re: cooling system modification, OK?
  Historical mailing list - Max/Joyce Wellhouse
  Sun, 29 Oct 2000 13:33:09 -0600
  ...cooling system modification, OK? > > >Hi, I'm almost complete in the following task, > >My '84 vanagon had a rusted return line on the cooling...
• Engine fuel injection differences from 86 through 91
  Historical mailing list - Doug in Calif
  Thu, 6 May 2004 09:52:55 -0700
  Are there any differences with the fuel injection or cooling system from 86 on? Will any engine from any year work for any year...
• Re: Cooling system questions for 1.9L
  Historical mailing list - Tim Demarest
  Wed, 14 Sep 2005 10:34:57 -0400
  ...The short answer is that the cooling system has *much* more capacity than your 1.9L engine needs, as long as it is working...
• Re: [WetWesties] The Vanagon cooling system.. it's counterintuitive.. (long post)
  Historical mailing list - Chris Szpejankowski
  Thu, 10 Sep 2015 15:54:28 -0400
  ...Re: [WetWesties] The Vanagon cooling system.. it's counterintuitive.. (long post) >>>> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM >>>> >>>> it's a consequence of the vehicle design...
• Re: Cooling system woes (again, again, again-again)
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sat, 21 Jul 2001 09:19:49 -0400
  ...Cooling system woes (again, again, again-again) My '87 likes to barf out its coolant little by little through the pressure cap into the...
• Re: Form Jay Leno's Garage
  Historical mailing list - Todd Last
  Fri, 6 Apr 2012 12:05:51 -0700
  ...about steam pockets and a few other things. > > There should be no steam pockets in your cooling system unless it has not been maintained...
• Bleeder valve Function?
  Historical mailing list - Peter Krogh
  Tue, 9 Oct 2001 16:40:18 EDT
  Hello list, In my seemingly never-ending quest to diagnose/repair cooling system, I have onew more question. Does the bleeder valve in the...
• Update on cooling issues with my Inline VW 84
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Sat, 8 May 2010 10:20:36 -0700
  ...It seems possible now that perhaps the part of the circulatory (cooling) system that went out of the motor to the rear heater and...
• Re: Darn AC! You've Foiled me again... I've got hot air
  Historical mailing list - B Feddish
  Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:13:37 -0400
  ...hoses today to put on that AC belt and now I'm all worried about having "disturbed" the balance of the cooling system. ;) Bryan
• Re: cooling system leak
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Fri, 20 Apr 2012 18:32:43 -0700
  ...in one of the cooling hoses, got big enough to find today. >>> >>> >>> http://shufti.wordpress.com/2012/04/20/vanagon-cooling-system-leak/ >>> >>> >>> alistair >>> >>>
• Re: follow-up - coolant gauge problem...
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:01:18 -0400
  Wait! Your running the engine to charge the AC and the cooling system is not bleed and functional? Of course you will consider the...
• Re: cooling fan!! The fix, if too noisy.
  Historical mailing list - Modl6971
  Mon, 18 May 1998 01:40:14 EDT
  ...The cooling system will need to be properly bleed afterwards. When that high speed comes on, it sure is noisy. Michael M. 87 syncro.
• A/C Advice Needed -- Kind of Long
  Historical mailing list - Keith Hughes
  Wed, 5 Jun 2002 10:06:42 -0700
  ...This will happen soon after the system starts cooling. At this point, the *2nd* stage cooling fan relay is activated, sending power to the...
• Re: COOLANT PROCEDURE AND AMOUNTS
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Sat, 17 Jan 2004 12:02:52 -0600
  ...Jim Check your Bentley On Jan 17, 2004, at 11:47 AM, Bob Stevens wrote: > Bob Donald's procedure: > BLEEDING THE COOLING SYSTEM > I...
• Re: cooling system leak
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Fri, 20 Apr 2012 23:13:15 -0700
  ...in one of the cooling hoses, got big enough to find today. >>> >>> >>> http://shufti.wordpress.com/2012/04/20/vanagon-cooling-system-leak/ >>> >>> >>> alistair >>> >>>
• Re: Re: � � � Some Clarifications a nd Additional Cooling System Comments
  Historical mailing list - Ken Lewis
  Thu, 3 Oct 2002 06:09:37 -0400
  ...The engine was > willing, but > the cooling system was not up to the task. Altitude and load > contributed to > the situation where the high...
• Re: Low Temp Radiator Thermo Switch "Better"?
  Historical mailing list - neil n
  Fri, 25 May 2012 09:25:48 -0700
  ...On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 4:39 PM, Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@cox.net> wrote: ---- David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET> wrote: > > > > The cooling system...
• Re: How to bleed the cooling system???
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Sun, 19 Nov 2000 09:25:58 -0600
  ...How to bleed the cooling system??? > > > My mechanic jacks up the REAR of my van to do the bleeding of air from the > > system...
• Re: Hydrophilia, or how I stopped worrying and learned to love distilled water
  Historical mailing list - Mark Dorm
  Mon, 28 Aug 2000 22:10:19 PDT
  ...to use distilled (or >de-ionized) water in a car's cooling system I have to wonder what the heck >they are talking about...
• Re: coolant tank cap
  Historical mailing list - Dan N
  Sun, 20 Sep 2015 08:49:54 -0700
  it's easier if you let the reservoir bolted to the van...better if no pressure in the cooling system which means cold I...
• How to bleed the cooling system???
  Historical mailing list - Sylvain B
  Sat, 18 Nov 2000 21:14:04 EST
  Hi all... :) _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public...
• Expansion tank not connected
  Historical mailing list - Jens Jakob Andersen
  Thu, 30 Dec 2004 12:42:43 +0100
  ...Any experts out there on the cooling system? /JJ
• Re: D'OH (metic) fridge
  Historical mailing list - Steven Johnson
  Fri, 26 Sep 1997 04:20:46 -0700
  ...time >between starting the fridge and getting the refrigeration system to start >capacity. Pre-cooling the fridge doesn't get around this problem; >you...
• Re: distilled water & wbx reliabilty
  Historical mailing list - Frank Grunthaner
  Tue, 19 Feb 2002 00:56:31 EST
  ...For best results, use a gasifier and deareate the cooling system while bleeding. 8. Switch to the Evans propylene glycol system and get rid...
• Re: Use Fuel Pressure Tester to Test Cooling System Pressure? (engine running)
  Historical mailing list - Larry Alofs
  Sun, 21 May 2017 16:53:54 -0400
  ...wrote: > Hi all > > I've been reading up on DIY type cooling system pressure testers. I > plan to re-use a broken WBX blue...
• Re: overheating & radiators
  Historical mailing list - John Lauterbach
  Wed, 23 Aug 2006 14:58:47 -0400
  ...I will say that I am coming to think that the radiator is a much overlooked source of badness in the Vanagon cooling system...
• Re: Need help - the dreaded flashing red coolant light
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Sun, 8 Sep 2002 21:06:06 -0500
  There are many things that have to be "Right" on this cooling system. If any one of them are "Wrong" the light will come...
• Re: Uh-oh, cooling system way pressurized
  Historical mailing list - Joe Romas
  Mon, 30 Apr 2001 20:29:47 -0400
  ...Uh-oh, cooling system way pressurized Thanks to all who have responded. At Ken's suggestion, today I removed the expansion tank cap to...
• Re: Putting a 2.1L where my 1.9L used to be......
  Historical mailing list - Chris S.
  Sat, 12 May 2012 20:43:17 -0400
  I've installed a complete 2.1 from a European import Syncro with 2.1 exhaust, ECU, intake, dizzy, wiring harness, and cooling system...
• Re: Need a/c hose for 87 Westy Gl
  Historical mailing list - Lund
  Sat, 11 Jul 1998 07:25:50 -0700
  ...I have to say that the system took the charge just fine and I am getting excellent cooling. Bill Lund
• Re: 1.9 > 2.1 cooling kit?
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Wed, 1 Sep 2010 18:14:48 -0700
  I've converted a van like yours to full 2.1 cooling system. every last part, from main coolant pipes back , changed over from...
• 82 aircooled cooling tin and AC compressor question
  Historical mailing list - Jeff Strickrott
  Tue, 19 Feb 2002 14:22:55 -0500
  ...factory installed air-conditioning system as the owner�s manual has the VWoA printed insert. My questions: 1. The cooling tin around the compressor...
• Re: cooling system diagnostic help? Long, lots of info about whats been done so far.
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Mon, 26 Apr 2010 06:05:26 -0700
  ...My plan of attack, forming now, is to first close off the rear heater circulation and re-fill/re-bleed the cooling system to...
• Re: 2.1 Conversion-Trouble Bleeding Cooling System
  Historical mailing list - Inua
  Fri, 1 Dec 2006 09:47:17 -0600
  ...So be sure to check the expansion tank frequently after cooling system maintenance has been done and the system topped off. Good luck. Regards...
• Re: Cooling system questions
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sun, 14 Feb 2016 20:48:11 -0500
  ...Cooling system questions what a coincidence... I replace the thermostat on my '88 GL yesterday.. I put in a 80°C thermostat (we live...