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• Re: Blue pressure cap, 1 valve or 2?
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Mon, 26 Aug 2013 01:34:07 -0400
  ...given access to a dead radiator of the desired type. You'd have to cut the cap fitting off and braze across the bottom...
• WTB adaptor to cooling system tester ...
  Historical mailing list - Zoltan
  Sun, 10 Jun 2007 23:53:30 -0700
  ...radiator fitting, not the threaded one we have. Also to test the cap, what is the way to do? So, is there a fitting...
• Hi, I came up with the following for flushing & filling the coolant system on m
  Historical mailing list - Erik Valeur
  Wed, 13 Jun 2001 10:02:13 EDT
  ...Connect your garden hose to the flush fitting. Make sure the coolant cap is off and the radiator bleeder is removed. Turn on the...
• Cooling system hoses, Vanagon diesel
  Historical mailing list - Karl Mullendore
  Wed, 10 Feb 1999 23:04:05 -0500
  ...head hose fitting. Works on those cars, why not the Vanagon? And you could replace the Golf / Jetta style expansion tank cap with the...
• RE: Freon Conversions / Substitutes
  Historical mailing list - Tom Brunson
  Tue, 8 Jul 97 19:18:19 UT
  ...Cost of conversion fittings CAN be under $10 in cases where the straight fittings will work. But to fit behind the Westy closet I...
• EXPANSION TANK OVERFLOW FITTING
  Historical mailing list - Lee Whetstone
  Thu, 20 Mar 2003 08:15:01 -0600
  ...My expansion tank is the type with the standard radiator cap, the nipple comes off the neck of the expansion tank. I don't...
• Brake Bleeder / Coolant Pressure Testor
  Historical mailing list - Cory Zumbrennen
  Thu, 8 Feb 2001 12:54:20 -0700
  ...Then I attached an air hose to the stem of the radiator cap and a fitting to attach it to the air pressure regulator...
• Re: More 2.1L coolant system woes (long)
  Historical mailing list - Robert Cardo
  Thu, 30 Dec 2004 12:35:23 -0600
  ...it takes to explode every hose and coolant fitting in the system. Kiss your radiator, heater cores, and your head seals good bye. Why...
• Re: Brake Bleeder / Coolant Pressure Testor
  Historical mailing list - Leon Korkin
  Thu, 8 Feb 2001 12:28:30 -0800
  ...Then I attached an air hose to the stem of the radiator cap > and a fitting to attach it to the air pressure regulator...
• flush radiator://adding distilled?
  Historical mailing list - Mark Dorm
  Sun, 5 May 2002 17:30:41 -0700
  ...Connect your garden hose to the flush fitting. Make sure the coolant cap is off and the radiator bleeder is removed. Turn on the...
• Re: back heat removal.
  Historical mailing list - Ben T
  Mon, 12 Apr 2004 10:45:29 EDT
  ...closing each end with a cap. Connecting them the way you have alllows the coolant to bypass the radiator. Water take the path of...
• Re: EXPANSION TANK OVERFLOW FITTING
  Historical mailing list - Kenneth Wilford
  Thu, 20 Mar 2003 09:41:10 -0500
  ...My expansion tank is the type with the standard radiator cap, the nipple comes off the neck of the expansion tank. I don't...
• Re: More 2.1L coolant system woes (long)
  Historical mailing list - Eric Zeno
  Thu, 30 Dec 2004 15:07:16 -0500
  ...it takes to explode > every hose and coolant fitting in the system. > > Kiss your radiator, heater cores, and your head seals good bye. > > Why...
• Re: More 2.1L coolant sys woes (long)
  Historical mailing list - Barry Muller
  Sun, 2 Jan 2005 15:42:57 -0500
  ...This was the "Deluxe" model with adapters for various radiators and pressure tanks. Apprently for earlier VWs, but of coure in turns out not...
• Re: OK, who's got the good simple method...
  Historical mailing list - HotelWestfalia
  Tue, 8 May 2012 09:17:29 -0700
  ...cap hole where you filled in. All other hoses are closed, except the two of them at the front that goes to the radiator...
• Re: Anyone ever rigged up a Coolant Pressure Gauge???
  Historical mailing list - David Brodbeck
  Mon, 21 Jul 2003 09:29:12 -0400
  On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, Jay L Snyder wrote: > I made up a fitting that attached to the radiator bleed bolt that ran to...
• Vanagon Trakka conversion - hot water problem
  Historical mailing list - Timothy Dauth
  Tue, 13 Aug 1996 15:23:38 +0800
  ...filler/overflow fittings. We drank boiled contaminated water for several days before realising that the green colour is not from algae. (radiator coolant is...
• Re: Wondering about coolant physics
  Historical mailing list - Frank Grunthaner
  Fri, 1 Jan 2016 11:51:48 -0800
  ...I would also need to find or make a suitable fitting >> to attach to the top of the radiator (banjo bolt?). Maybe some day...
• Re: Radiator mounting gaskets
  Historical mailing list - Max Wellhouse
  Thu, 22 Feb 2007 01:16:28 -0600
  ...Damn caps lock anyway. My bad DM&FS At 02:46 PM 2/21/2007, Max Wellhouse wrote: > i THINK i USED OLD FUEL...
• Re: vanagon question
  Historical mailing list - Jay L Snyder
  Mon, 19 Aug 2002 08:12:48 -0400
  ...The 12 psi is near the set point of the cap, although this was measured at the radiator. Pressure at the tank feeding the...
• Re: Wondering about coolant physics
  Historical mailing list - Larry Alofs
  Fri, 1 Jan 2016 16:49:58 -0500
  ...I would also need to find or make a suitable > fitting > >> to attach to the top of the radiator (banjo bolt?). Maybe some day...
• Re: OK, who's got the good simple method...
  Historical mailing list - HotelWestfalia
  Tue, 8 May 2012 08:23:34 -0700
  I use a method that I did not read anywhere; Open bleed bolt on radiator, open both valves of the heater cores, take off...
• Re: OK, who's got the good simple method...
  Historical mailing list - Rocket J Squirrel
  Tue, 8 May 2012 08:34:21 -0700
  ...You wrote, "When filling up the system, you can open the top big hose on the fitting by sliding a screw driver under it...
• Re: Bleeding Cooling system per Bentley
  Historical mailing list - kenneth d lewis
  Fri, 15 Jan 1999 06:38:42 EST
  ...open bleeder screw on passenger side top of radiator >6. open bleeder valve at front of engine compartment (on black >plastic >fitting with 4...
• Re: Stupid Sexist Friday Quasi-Humor.
  Historical mailing list - Sudhir Desai
  Fri, 9 Nov 2001 16:06:30 -0800
  ...you realize that you didn't smell any antifreeze when your car overheated so you open the radiator cap and find a freshly brewed...
• Re: help!:bypassing rear heater
  Historical mailing list - Davidson
  Sun, 16 Jan 2000 09:13:27 -0800
  ...return to the engine before going forward to the radiator; that's why I capped each off instead. Bill -----Original Message----- From: Tim Root...
• Re: coolant overflow fears and thoughts
  Historical mailing list - Larry Alofs
  Wed, 8 May 2013 18:00:11 -0400
  ...an adapter to test pressure caps, get this fitting from Stant: http://www.amazon.com/Stant-12017-Threaded-Radiator-Cooling/dp/B000CKTJYG Or search...
• Re: gas leak-baywindow
  Historical mailing list
  Sat, 25 May 1996 21:47:33 -0500
  ...A radiator shop brazed a brass fitting over one hole and a penny over the other (unused, now) hole. The brass fitting was essentially...
• Bleeding Cooling system per Bentley
  Historical mailing list - Jim Arnott
  Thu, 14 Jan 1999 22:45:50 -0800
  ...open bleeder screw on passenger side top of radiator 6. open bleeder valve at front of engine compartment (on black plastic fitting with 4...
• Re: How can this be?
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sun, 5 Jun 2005 20:08:45 -0400
  ...fitting. I think I'll try it again and see what happens. If it blows off again then I would assume that the radiator...
• Re: Wondering about coolant physics
  Historical mailing list - OlRivrRat
  Fri, 1 Jan 2016 13:56:58 -0700
  ...I would also need to find or make a suitable fitting >>> to attach to the top of the radiator (banjo bolt?). Maybe some day...
• Re: REAR HEATER Repair/By-pass advice
  Historical mailing list - Davidson
  Mon, 21 Feb 2000 10:59:56 -0800
  ...the radiator to cool. I used brass fittings to plug both hoses off... two barbed by threaded fittings and two brass threaded caps.. used...
• RE: Nervous about heads
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 10 Jan 97 13:17:22 EST
  >I got a few weeks ago the same problem than yours and I change the cap, but >I'm not sure the problem is...
• Re: Removing the rear heater
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sun, 11 Apr 2004 22:24:13 -0400
  ...Cap off the hoses or better yet, remove the tees and replace with straight fittings. Shunting the rear heater will reduce flow to the...
• Re: Of spare tires and broken wires...
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Mon, 26 Jun 2000 00:37:01 -0400
  ...But there's a fitting with three wires on it that >also seems to go up the past the radiator fan and into the...
• Re: Leaky rear heater---Autozone Loan-a-Tool program
  Historical mailing list - Richard Koerner
  Thu, 21 May 2020 23:30:26 +0000
  ...your credit card.  The kit has a myriad of fittings to connect to radiators of all breeds, or in my Vanagon case the coolant...
• Re: Oil cooler
  Historical mailing list - Bulley-Hewlett & Associates
  Wed, 14 Oct 1998 13:06:27 -0400
  ...small radiator mounted underneath up front by the spare tire. In addition to cooling the oil this system would increase oil capacity, a definite...
• Re: Bleeding Cooling system per Bentley
  Historical mailing list - Robert Rountree
  Fri, 15 Jan 1999 09:20:45 -0500
  ...open bleeder screw on passenger side top of radiator >6. open bleeder valve at front of engine compartment (on black plastic >fitting with 4...
• Re: More 2.1L coolant system woes (long)
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Thu, 30 Dec 2004 17:46:32 -0600
  ...it takes to explode > every hose and coolant fitting in the system. > > Kiss your radiator, heater cores, and your head seals good bye. > > Why...
• Re: Suggestion, Re: Checking a Radiator.-now cooling Q&A
  Historical mailing list - Brian McClure
  Sun, 8 Jul 2001 21:43:51 EDT
  ...the upper cowl and screen for the cap. also had prblems with the spare tire fitting but finally got it.this rad does not...
• Re: Install of tencentlife External Oil Cooler
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Sun, 22 May 2011 22:09:59 -0700
  ...radiator. The switch cares not whether it is in oil or coolant... You will need to get some sort of a "T" fitting that...
• Changing Coolant '91 GL(Long)
  Historical mailing list - Herb Harmison
  Tue, 17 Sep 1996 22:42:36 -0500
  ...the cap threads on the expansion tank. This will allow you to put water into the tank. 4. Take the front upper radiator grill...
• Re: Leaky rear heater---Autozone Loan-a-Tool program
  Historical mailing list - Pat Spragge
  Thu, 21 May 2020 16:33:51 -0700
  ...I didn't quite know what pressure to pump it up to....I used 10 PSI to start with...since most radiator caps let...
• Re: back heat removal, comparative experiences among my vans
  Historical mailing list - Sam Walters
  Mon, 12 Apr 2004 12:17:32 -0400
  ...Cap off the hoses or better yet, remove the tees and replace with straight fittings. Shunting the rear heater will reduce flow to the...
• Coolant System Pressure Gauge
  Historical mailing list - Jay L Snyder
  Thu, 9 May 2002 09:59:43 -0400
  ...gauge to the copper tubing using a compression fitting. The nut gets pinched under the radiator bleed bolt using an extra copper gasket. With...
• Re: Leaky rear heater---Autozone Loan-a-Tool program
  Historical mailing list - David McNeely
  Thu, 21 May 2020 17:37:00 -0700
  ...I didn't quite know what pressure to > pump it up to....I used 10 PSI to start with...since most radiator caps let...
• Re: coolant overflow fears and thoughts
  Historical mailing list - Tom Carchrae
  Thu, 9 May 2013 10:08:11 -0700
  ...an adapter to test > pressure caps, get this fitting from Stant: > > http://www.amazon.com/Stant-12017-Threaded-Radiator-Cooling/dp/B000CKTJYG > > Or search...
• Re: Wondering about coolant physics
  Historical mailing list - Larry Alofs
  Fri, 1 Jan 2016 13:17:29 -0500
  ...I would also need to find or make a suitable fitting to attach to the top of the radiator (banjo bolt?). Maybe some day...
• Re: More 2.1L coolant system woes (long)
  Historical mailing list - Robert Fisher
  Thu, 30 Dec 2004 13:13:06 -0800
  ...it takes to explode > every hose and coolant fitting in the system. > > Kiss your radiator, heater cores, and your head seals good bye. > > Why...
• Re: Anyone ever rigged up a Coolant Pressure Gauge???
  Historical mailing list - Jay L Snyder
  Mon, 21 Jul 2003 08:44:13 -0400
  I made up a fitting that attached to the radiator bleed bolt that ran to a vacuum/30 psi gauge. I wanted to see...
• Re: Vanagon AC set up 2 condensers?
  Historical mailing list - Keith Hughes
  Fri, 22 May 2009 09:18:16 -0700
  ...You'll also have the hoses and fittings which, again, depending on where you buy, and how many new hoses you install, can run...
• Re: About that coolant drain tee
  Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
  Wed, 30 May 2012 11:25:30 -0700
  ...I can't find any brass caps, only plastic, so I'll carry a spare and just change it every couple of years, or...
• Re: coolant pressure gauge
  Historical mailing list - Frank Grunthaner
  Fri, 11 Feb 2000 19:59:20 EST
  ...You could also plumb this into the radiator with judicious choice of fittings at the bleed valve or one of the radiator fan temp...
• Re: Oil cooler
  Historical mailing list - Max/Joyce Wellhouse
  Wed, 14 Oct 1998 13:59:19 -0500
  ...small radiator mounted underneath up front by the spare tire. In addition to cooling the oil this system would increase oil capacity, a definite...
• Re: Leaky rear heater---Autozone Loan-a-Tool program
  Historical mailing list - Richard Koerner
  Fri, 22 May 2020 00:13:46 +0000
  ...your credit card.  > > The kit has a myriad of fittings to connect to radiators of all breeds, or in my Vanagon case the coolant...
• 82 diesel overheating
  Historical mailing list - Rolf Pechukas
  Tue, 6 Jul 1999 22:55:59 EDT
  ...detach expansion tank cap and upper hose from expansion tank (the one on the constrictor) slip into the hose you removed a tight-fitting...
• Re: More 2.1L coolant system woes (long)
  Historical mailing list - Eric Zeno
  Thu, 30 Dec 2004 19:01:16 -0500
  ...it takes to explode > > every hose and coolant fitting in the system. > > > > Kiss your radiator, heater cores, and your head seals good bye. > > > > Why...
• Re: Coolant leak from coolant tank
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Sun, 26 Jul 2009 19:23:39 -0700
  ...on a 'normal car' .........like an old fashioned front engine, front radiator car .......you could run with the cap loose to keep pressure from...
• Re: Temp Gauge
  Historical mailing list - Mark Drillock
  Thu, 19 Apr 2007 09:27:04 -0700
  ...Mark vt wrote: > On my 84 Westy, > Within the past few months, I've replaced the thermostat, the pipe and > fittings which extend left...
• Re: Leaky rear heater---Autozone Loan-a-Tool program
  Historical mailing list - Richard Koerner
  Fri, 22 May 2020 00:44:53 +0000
  ...your credit card. > > The kit has a myriad of fittings to connect to radiators of all breeds, or > in my Vanagon case the coolant...