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• Re: PWM controller , was Water Cooler System Design Flaw Workaround?
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Sun, 25 Apr 2010 09:28:00 -0700
  ...on temperature change, like for example when pulling a hill, to give the cooling system a jump start on cooling. Tom www.towercooler.com
• Re: Hoses-Cooling System
  Historical mailing list - Gerald Masar
  Sun, 30 May 2004 10:21:38 -0700
  ...Hoses-Cooling System > someone had posted a site with part numbers of hoses btw VW and NAPA. > I can't find it! > Does anybody...
• Re: Diesel cooling problem advise needed
  Historical mailing list - Martin Jagersand
  Mon, 13 Apr 1998 18:45:04 -0400
  ...In the best case your problem is simply a poorly bled cooling system. That means that a lot of air was left in the...
• Coolant, Bentley 18.6qt, I can only drain 10qts
  Historical mailing list - Vince P.
  Mon, 22 Feb 1999 10:32:00 -0800
  I recently drained and flushed my cooling system on my 85 Westy. I I drained and flushed it four times to get out all...
• Re: 2.1L into '84 Westy project - Cooling system question
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 9 Jul 2008 11:44:34 -0700
  ...2.1L into '84 Westy project - Cooling system question Or the solution with the newest parts? The cooling hoses, however numerous, on the 2...
• Re: [WetWesties] The Vanagon cooling system.. it's counterintuitive.. (long post)
  Historical mailing list - James
  Tue, 8 Sep 2015 23:10:17 -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: ETKA Missing Cooling system diagrams???
  Historical mailing list - Jim Arnott
  Wed, 30 Jul 2003 10:37:50 -0700
  ...I'm wrong, but I cannot find any reference to the >cooling system in the ETKA What's up with that? I know water...
• Re: Syncro Cooling
  Historical mailing list - The Bus Depot
  Wed, 21 Apr 1999 07:37:10 -0400
  > I need a good diagram of the Syncro Cooling system. I have one at http://www.busdepot.com/watersyncro.htm . - Ron Salmon The Bus...
• Re: Running VERY HOT 91 Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Eric Zeno
  Thu, 26 Jun 2003 07:44:12 -0400
  ...not sure if I bled the system right? Could this be the problem? The cooling fan also isn't turning on what would cause...
• Re: pressure testing cooling system
  Historical mailing list
  Sat, 16 Dec 1995 09:44:12 -0800
  ...Without the pressure >tester, I would have thought I had a small combustion gas leak into the >cooling system. > >I came across one today...
• Re: 2.1L into '84 Westy project - Cooling system question
  Historical mailing list - dylan friedman
  Wed, 9 Jul 2008 11:59:58 -0700
  ...2.1L into '84 Westy project - Cooling system question Or the solution with the newest parts? The cooling hoses, however numerous, on the 2...
• Re: Cooling System performance at altitude
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Fri, 6 Jun 2003 21:19:40 -0400
  ...Cooling System performance at altitude If one has a 15psi cap will the coolant boil at a lower temperature at 7500 feet than at...
• Re: cooling system tester
  Historical mailing list - Jim Morgan
  Fri, 25 Oct 2002 07:41:26 EDT
  An update on the leaking cooling system. Was under it looking for the leak and found a real nasty and corroded driver side coolant...
• Re: Blinking Coolant LED light and other cooling issues
  Historical mailing list - Loren Busch
  Fri, 20 May 2005 12:04:43 -0700
  ...Cooling/Overheating problem The symptoms you describe are nearly identical to the problem I had with my '85 (same engine/cooling system). The bottom...
• Re: coolant pressure testing
  Historical mailing list - Robert Cardo
  Fri, 3 Sep 2004 22:29:37 -0500
  Snap On has the VW cooling system pressurizing adaptor for testing the system.
• Re: 1.9L to 2.1L Swap
  Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
  Tue, 20 Jun 2000 11:57:41 -0700
  ...It isn't worth the trouble, there is no difference in the cooling ability, the 2.1 system is just more complicated. Regarding the...
• Re: About coolant
  Historical mailing list - Keith Hughes
  Sun, 13 Dec 2009 10:13:15 -0700
  ...As long as your cooling system is adequate (e.g. not a stock vanagon in the desert) the pressure maintained in the cooling system...
• Re: 1.9 to 2.1 conversion question
  Historical mailing list - Chris S
  Tue, 7 Apr 2009 15:43:25 -0400
  ...I was wondering though, > why can't I swap the 2.1 harness, ecu and distributor in, too? I know the > cooling system must...
• Re: [WetWesties] The Vanagon cooling system.. it's counterintuitive.. (long post)
  Historical mailing list - PSD
  Sun, 6 Sep 2015 18:17:26 -0400
  ...Re: [WetWesties] The Vanagon cooling system.. it's counterintuitive.. (long post) I wouldn't say it's counter-intuitive really ..
• Re: New Engine Oil Leak
  Historical mailing list - Peter Krogh
  Wed, 20 Jun 2001 15:56:14 EDT
  ...That would require the 2.1 exhaust system and cooling system layout... Jay
• Re: Haynes Manual 1982-1990
  Historical mailing list - Rob
  Tue, 5 Oct 2004 13:42:51 -0700
  At 10/5/2004 12:38 PM, Coram Deo wrote: >Gonna go flush the cooling system now. Can't see lifting it almost 16...
• Overheating 2.1L Questions
  Historical mailing list - Paul Kirsch
  Wed, 28 Oct 1998 20:31:49 EST
  ...Does anyone knows how the cooling system can be corrected. I realize the heads need work, but I would like to know the cooling...
• Re: Cooling questions still
  Historical mailing list - John Goubeaux
  Mon, 17 Sep 2007 11:07:13 -0700
  ...I have had a variety of cooling system problems (on a 90 2.1) recently which started with overheating and what appeared to be...
• Re: Detection of air bubbles in coolant system
  Historical mailing list - Marc Perdue
  Mon, 12 Jun 2000 23:07:36 -0400
  ...The cooling system in the Vanagons is a pressurized system. Unless the coolant is a compressible fluid such as freon, it seems to me...
• Re: Detection of air bubbles in coolent system
  Historical mailing list - Mick Reynolds
  Mon, 12 Jun 2000 18:56:24 GMT
  ...Use a bicycle pump to pump up the coolent system to 14psi. You can then remove the pump. If the cooling system doesn't...
• Syncro Cooling
  Historical mailing list - Joel Shortlidge
  Wed, 21 Apr 1999 10:27:38 -0500
  I need a good diagram of the Syncro Cooling system. The one in my Bentley manual shows the distribution unit for a 2wd vanagon...
• interior diameter of rad feed/return hoses?
  Historical mailing list - Dan Barrett
  Fri, 12 Jan 2007 11:33:32 -0500
  Does anyone happen to know the interior diameter of the feed and return hoses connecting the radiator to the rest of the cooling system...
• Re: 2.1L into '84 Westy project - Cooling system question
  Historical mailing list - Old Volks Home
  Wed, 9 Jul 2008 16:22:57 -0700
  Mike Miller's price question was the very reason I made the decision 11 years ago to stick with my 1.9 cooling system...
• Operating Tempertures anyone?
  Historical mailing list - Peter Krogh
  Tue, 9 Apr 2002 16:33:24 EDT
  ...Is this in the normal range? BTW, still have inexplicable coolant rise (air entering cooling system) after highway driving, after replacing nearly every part...
• Re: Bleeding Cooling System (again...)
  Historical mailing list - tabe johnson
  Wed, 6 Oct 2004 02:16:46 -0400
  I have two suggestions for those who want to bleed their cooling system: 1) park on a hill 2) chech the archives Also one...
• a tip to keep you rolling
  Historical mailing list - Mark Gajewski
  Tue, 15 Feb 2000 09:46:45 -0500
  Last night, after driving around with cylinder compression leaking into my cooling system creating excessive pressure, I had a major head gasket failure that...
• a tip to keep you rolling
  Historical mailing list - Mark Gajewski
  Wed, 16 Feb 2000 10:18:04 -0500
  > Last night, after driving around with cylinder compression leaking into my > cooling system creating excessive pressure, I had a major head gasket > failure that...
• Re: How hot is HOT?
  Historical mailing list - Bryan Feddish
  Wed, 5 Aug 1998 07:59:57 -0400
  ...In this way, the expansion tank must always be total filled. > If not, cap must be replaced and/or the cooling system has a...
• What is the best way to get oil out of the cooling system?
  Historical mailing list - David Marshall
  Wed, 24 Sep 2003 11:45:22 -0700
  ...When the motor failed, oil and water mixed and the cooling system is a nice sludgy brown. What is the best way to totally...
• Re: '87 Vanagon GL ATF Cooler
  Historical mailing list - John Bange
  Wed, 14 Feb 2007 19:41:11 -0800
  ...Plumbs into > the Van's cooling system. > On the return line from the Radiator, between the Thermostat-Housing > and the end of the Plastic...
• Cooling System
  Historical mailing list
  Sat, 22 Mar 1997 07:42:24 -0700
  ...In doing so, some of the cooling was drained. I have replaced my sending unit and have purchased and mixed some new phosphate free...
• Expansion Tank
  Historical mailing list - Dan Fleming
  Wed, 12 Apr 2000 15:56:01 -0700
  Hey, does anyone out there have an uncracked expansion tank for the cooling system for a 1.9L (this one is an 83.5...
• Re: What should I look for or avoid in 84 Westy?
  Historical mailing list - Maher, Steve (SD-MS)
  Thu, 16 May 1996 09:04:00 -0700 (PDT)
  >EX>1) Cooling system. I would drive the van for about ten minutes, >EX>and then let it idle for a good 20 minutes...
• Re: Air Getting into Cooling system
  Historical mailing list - Doug F
  Sat, 1 Apr 2006 17:58:19 -0800
  ...Air Getting into Cooling system > John > > often people have trouble keeping the system bleed when the head gaskets > are failing. try pressurizing the system...
• Re: 2.1L into '84 Westy project - Cooling system question
  Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
  Wed, 9 Jul 2008 12:33:43 -0700
  As long as you have or are willing to pay for a 2.1 exhaust system, then keep the 2.1 cooling system. it...
• Re: Air Bubble?
  Historical mailing list - SDF ( aka ;jim lahey' - Scott )
  Thu, 18 Sep 2014 21:36:33 -1000
  ...making sure coolant is flowing fully through the heater circuit with a freshly filled cooling system.. that's like 'fundamental' .. always always always make...
• Re: [WetWesties] The Vanagon cooling system.. it's counterintuitive.. (long post)
  Historical mailing list - SDF ( aka ;jim lahey' - Scott )
  Sun, 6 Sep 2015 19:09:29 -1000
  ...Though ...that would keep the major cooling system parts in one area.. and help the weight distribution ..which oddly, on a 2WD Vanagon is...
• Re: Effectiveness of cooling system flush and clean products?
  Historical mailing list - Poppie Jagersand
  Fri, 7 Jun 2013 19:51:16 -0700
  ...Effectiveness of cooling system flush and clean products? Keep in mind that all that water is now waste and should not be allowed into...
• Re: On the Vanagon Cooling System
  Historical mailing list - Carrington, Tom
  Wed, 2 Oct 2002 12:28:09 -0400
  ...On the Vanagon Cooling System (snip) Well, while licking my wounds and sitting here amazed at what beta blockers can do to your general...
• Cooling System Pressure Test Protocol
  Historical mailing list - Peter Krogh
  Sun, 24 Mar 2002 23:02:58 EST
  ...I am concerned that my cooling system leak, whether in a head crack, or in the system at large, occurs only at operating temperatures...
• Re: Tweak yer heater output!
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Sun, 17 Nov 2002 18:22:42 -0500
  ...Busch wrote: >may help in cold weather, but you are interfering with what may be a >critical portion of the cooling system. The engine...
• Re: head internal leak. Any chance of sealer working
  Historical mailing list - David Brodbeck
  Thu, 8 May 2003 09:41:04 -0400
  On Wed, 7 May 2003, Craig Oda wrote: > I recommend the 8 bucks or so for the "T" for people flushing their > cooling systems...
• Re: 2.1L into '84 Westy project - Cooling system question
  Historical mailing list - Chris S
  Wed, 9 Jul 2008 19:34:51 -0400
  ...cooling system - affordability *at the > time*. Eleven years later (or more), I may be forced someday to convert to > the 2.1 cooling setup...
• coolant
  Historical mailing list - Mike Blotz
  Tue, 3 Sep 2002 10:52:10 -0600
  hey gang So I bled my cooling system properly this weekend on my new van. quite a bit of air seemed to come out...
• Re: Cooling in Arizona
  Historical mailing list
  Sun, 20 May 2001 23:20:46 -0400
  When properly maintained, a Vanagon cooling system will perform very well, even with the air conditioner on full, in the heat and humidity of...
• Re: Coolent Additive
  Historical mailing list - Gary Stearns
  Fri, 8 Dec 2000 09:11:46 -0500
  ...if you are having cooling problems or running a high performance engine that is overwhelming a stock cooling system. Others symply recharge the anti...
• Re: Tweak yer heater output!
  Historical mailing list - Timothy Hannink
  Sun, 17 Nov 2002 15:03:27 -0800
  ...If you're overheating, there is a problem with your cooling system, not in the design of the system. Having the insulation on the...
• Cooling system draining question
  Historical mailing list - Bill Urban
  Sat, 6 Mar 1999 18:00:26 -0600
  ...Using the Bentley manual under Engine-Cooling System (page 19.15 in the latest edition) it instructs to clamp off hoses and drain the...
• 1.9 without expansion tank?????????
  Historical mailing list - Jens Jakob Andersen
  Thu, 16 Dec 2004 13:42:55 +0100
  ...He says cooling system is different on the engine he put in. He thinks it is a 83 engine - but doesnt know. Anyway, he...
• Re: Coolant Flush and Fill
  Historical mailing list - John
  Sun, 3 Oct 1999 14:18:45 -0400
  ...See the cooling system schematic in the Bentley book to understand this better. If you need a cooling system schematic, I can send you...
• Hydrophilia, or how I stopped worrying and learned to love distilled water
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Mon, 28 Aug 2000 10:27:43 -0700
  I shouldn't be amazed, but everytime someone says not to use distilled (or de-ionized) water in a car's cooling system I...
• Re: Flickering Oil Light at Idle
  Historical mailing list - Rocket J Squirrel
  Sat, 6 Sep 2014 12:47:36 -0700
  ...So if anyone has a page that says, "here's the best things you can do for your 1.9L cooling system, as written...
• Re: 84 Cooling System Problem
  Historical mailing list - STEVEN G WACKER
  Thu, 2 Oct 1997 10:51:03 -0700
  ...I'm guessing you have an air bubble in your cooling system...could be a sign of head problems, it was for me, so...
• Re: How to - or not - bleed the cooling system
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Thu, 9 Feb 2006 08:09:14 -0500
  ...How to - or not - bleed the cooling system > My coolant light flashes at startup, then goes out, temp guage > never goes > past half. Am...
• Re: Air Getting into Cooling system
  Historical mailing list - Raceingcajun
  Sun, 2 Apr 2006 16:10:41 -0500
  ...All those cooling system pressure testers Snap-on and the rest of the tool industry have sold with instructions to pressure up to 20...