----- Original Message -----
From: "Jonc" <jonc@webgears.com>
To: "David Beierl" <dbeierl@attglobal.net>
Sent: Saturday, August 12, 2000 11:13 PM
Subject: Re: At long last protype waterbox bleeding, draining and purging
installed and operating

> David,
>
>
>
> You get to guess again... How many thermostats should we change before we
> look for another answer.?? which may be that it has always been impossible
> to bleed all the air out of a waterbox the way they are configured... that
> is a very good bet...
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Beierl" <dbeierl@attglobal.net>
> To: "Jonc" <jonc@webgears.com>
> Cc: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Sent: Saturday, August 12, 2000 8:51 PM
> Subject: Re: At long last protype waterbox bleeding, draining and purging
> installed and operating
>
>
> > Are you sure you put the thermostat back in?  Sound like classic open
> > thermostat to me...
> >
> > d

**** In deference to my friend David we will change the stat another time
and make it an even 4
> >
> > At 20:35 8/12/2000, Jonc wrote:
> > >run up to temperature and run for 15 minutes after that... it took a
long
> > >time for the engine to get up to  temperature and for the cooling fan
to
> > >
> > >the first results are curious... the temperature indicator never
reaches
> the
> > >warning light... at 2000 to 2500 the temperature settles in at about
40%
> of
> > >gauge ... when the rpms are raised to 3000 to 3500 the temperature
drops
> to
> > >about 30% of gauge... when the revs again were raised  to 4000 to 4300
> the
> > >temperature dropped to 20% of gauge...
> >
> > David Beierl - Providence, RI
> >   http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/
> > '84 Westy "Dutiful Passage"
> > '85 GL "Poor Relation"
> >
>
>
>