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Subject:Re: Is radiator bleed screw just a 13 mmbolt?
From:David Beierl
Date:Wed, 20 Feb 2002 17:58:54 -0500
At 05:51 PM 2/20/2002, Vanagon man wrote:
>Volks,
>bleeding my coolant today, and pull the grill to accss the radiator bleed
>screw and discover a 13mm bolt head in its place.
>
>Is this the correct setup?  It seems that there should be something that I
>could turn by hand..............I had to take to bolt out to get out the
>air and once that happened there was Mt Visuvius of coolant...kinda like
>trying to cap a well...........

The bolt should have a groove in the side (or to be fancy, a hole up the
middle that exits at the side).

david

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