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Subject:Re: Is radiator bleed screw just a 13 mmbolt?
From:George Wietor
Date:Wed, 20 Feb 2002 15:07:30 -0800

Dittoes: take your Dremel cut-off wheel and grind a
short groove. George
'87 Van O'White in historic Grand Rapids, where the
streets are paved with Rottweiler doo.

--- David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET> wrote:
> 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
>
>
> --
> David Beierl - Providence, RI
>   http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/
> '84 Westy "Dutiful Passage"
> '85 GL "Poor Relation"

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