Hi Ki,

I was reading your reply post and was trying to figure
out how you were plugging holes with your camel
back and piece of pin.  I finally realized that you
"spliced" in these pieces.   Wow!  And the piece
of pen is still holding?  I'm impressed!!

Nice piece of MacGyver work....   :)

Speaking of MacGyver(ing) does anyone out there have
any suggestions as to how to pinch/plug off the
hoses while replacing the distribution stack?  I'd
like to do this as cleanly as possible (if possible).

Thanks!

Steven
'91 Westy

--- KI <ki@CLOUDFACTORY.ORG> wrote:
> sounds like the same hose that burned right through
> on my vanagon on my
> trip to death valley a couple of months ago.  i had
> just come over monitor
> pass and all of a sudden my engine started heating
> up. it had been laying
> on top of my muffler.  funny, the first
> thing i tried was duck tape too, didnt' work tho'.
> i did end up taking
> the mouth piece of my camel back and plugging the
> too ends of teh hose
> into it. filled the car up with coolant and  made it
> to the next town and
> it blew off, spewing all my coolant out again.
> luckily i made it to a
> littel store and bought some hose clamps and cut a 2
> inch piece of an ink
> pen and jammed the two ends into it and clampled
> them down.  made it to
> death valley and then to taos nm and then all the
> way back to san
> fran.  i still haven't fixed it yet as i'm waiting
> on the tiico engine and
> don't want to spend any more money on the current
> one.  jsut did a trip to
> umpqua nat forest in oregon and it held up fine.  i
> would def. bleed the
> cooling system.
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, 26 May 2001, Don Oldenburg wrote:
>
> > Hi Everyone--
> >
> >      My '90 Vanagon blasted out a load of
> antifreeze the other day soon as I
> > parked it after driving it a while. I checked
> around the engine compartment
> > this morning and followed the hosing from the
> reserve tank until I found the
> > leak.
> >     Looking at the engine compartment from the
> back and on top: Hosing from
> > the reserve tank sort follows around the top
> inside of the comparment
> > opening; on the left side, there's a T-junction
> with a black rubber hose,
> > about 1/2 inch round and maybe 14 inches long to
> where it gets larger in
> > diameter (maybe 3/4 or an inch) for about four
> inches to where it connects to
> > the left-side cylinder head on top.
> >    Right before that rubber hose fits onto the
> metal engine connection,
> > there's a break where the antifreeze leaks when
> pressured. Got the part #:
> > 025-121-058-M (and maybe the same number ending in
> C instead of M might
> > work)...
> >     I tried searching the archive but for some
> reason can't get in at all,
> > so....
> >
> >     My Question: The hose looks easy enough to
> remove (clamp on each end).
> > I'm thinking I could take it off, dry it good, and
> do some heavy duty taping
> > over that rupture, and put it back on--so I could
> at least drive it for a few
> > days until I get the replacement hose special
> ordered.  Is that adviseable or
> > not?
> >
> >     Second Question: If I take that hose off, do I
> run the risk of getting
> > air in the system (and if so, what's the trick to
> doing this then and not
> > getting air in then system?), or will it just pull
> more antifreeze off the
> > reserve once I hook it back up again and start it?
> >
> >     It looks like a simple fix--but I've done
> simple fixes before that ended
> > up causing bigger headaches. Any advise would be
> appreciated.
> >
> > Many thanks,
> >
> > Don Oldenburg
> > McLean, Va.
> > elevenhalf@aol.com
> >

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