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Subject:Re: Pumping OUT Coolant
From:kenneth d lewis
Date:Wed, 6 Sep 2000 19:00:33 EDT

Robie;
        Remove the radiator fan switch. Plug hole. Now look at the end of
the switch that stays submerged. Is it coated with crusty white crud?
Then the interior of the radiator is also. I recommend you find someone
who can "blast it out". Involves heat and sonic pressure. You will have
to take the radiator to them. Cost me $25.
        While you are at it test the fan switch in boiling water.
        Alternately you could try driving with you heater on. If no steam
, again, radiators's bad.
Drive Safely & Good Luck
Ken Lewis    <Kernersville,NC>
86 VW crewcab;60 356B Coupe
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On Wed, 6 Sep 2000 10:30:39 -0400 Robie Pierce <robie19@HOME.COM> writes:
>91 Wolfie - On no predictable occasion, green coolant gushes out. Only
>use this vehicle for short around town trips. Temp gauge dead nuts in
>the middle. No smell or steam. Drove from point A to point B(10
>minutes). Coolant streaming out. After 2 hr. drove B to A. No coolant
>running out. No gurgling..... Thermostat bad?? New one 3500 miles ago.
>Hose on down side of thermostat ?

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