@ 4", you may not have fully bled the heater boxes.  VW specifies 40cm, or
about 16".

Karl Wolz

----- Original Message -----
From: "Walter Evens" <wrevens@MYEXCEL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 9:48 AM
Subject: Re: '91Westy Coolant loss

> I am new to the list so Greetings to all.  It had been some years since I
> changed hoses on a Vanagon and I forgot to "bleed" the system when I
> recently removed the alternator bracket to fix a stripped stud.  I had to
> empty the system in order to remove the water pipe that goes across the
> engine in front of the bracket.  While driving it afterwards it heated up
a
> little and for some odd reason corrected or bled itself as I haven't had a
> temperature problem since.  Lucky me.
>
> I don't know about anyone else's van but there is no mistaking when my
> cooling fan is on. When I've been driving it and I shut the engine off it
> runs a while afterwards.
>
> On a funny note, the last time I bled the system, some "expert" told me I
> had to jack the front of the van 3 FEET OFF THE GROUND!  I used a Handy
Man
> "High Lift" jack that time. I have found out since that 4 inches will do.
>
> Walter Evens
> Hesperia, CA
> 85 GL (late 84)
> 85 GL (early 85)
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bob Stevens" <mtbiker62@HOTMAIL.COM>
> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 7:37 AM
> Subject: Re: '91Westy Coolant loss
>
>
> > Thanks Ken and Ed. I didn't do anything with the radiator when I changed
> the
> > thermostat. This is the first time I've had any indications of trouble
> from
> > the front end. NOtice that I don't think the cooling fan comes on so, of
> > course, it heats up more when driving up hill or when stopped. I don't
> hear
> > the fan but it may be operating. I'll just do first things first and
check
> > where the leak is coming from this a.m. and go from there.
> > Bob Stevens
> >
> >
> >
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