>I hope your engine didn't go kaput because they're bypass job caused you to
>lose all your coolant!

Don't think that didn't cross my mind!  I think it was coincidence, though.
I had been feeling some minor loss of compression for a couple of weeks
before it happened, but I was hoping to make it to inspection (April) before
I had to deal with the problem.

At the very least, you'd think the guys who did the heater core bypass could
have alerted me to the problem.   Oh, and when I picked it up, I found that
the oil was 3 quarts down - so, in hindsight - I think it may have been a
pre-existing problem that was aggravated by the overheating....?