In a message dated 3/10/02 8:44:38 AM Eastern Standard Time,
aerie@BLCLINKS.NET writes:

> I had a water seal leak at the right side head on my '87 vanagon pass.
> van (stick) that persisted for some time. Hot or cold, running or not, I
> was losing a couple of quarts every 2 or 3 days. No oil or water mixing,
> compression O.K. in all 4 (180K mile on this one.) I can't afford at
> this time to take this thing out of service for repair, so I reasoned
> that if the motor was coming out anyway I couldn't make matters much
> worse if the pepper screwed things up. So... I put about 2 tablespoons
> of table pepper in with one of my coolant replenishments about a week
> ago. Starting the following morning, the leak stopped, and I haven't had
> to add another drop of coolant to this one since. Everything seems to
> operate normally, no overheating, front and rear heat work fine, etc.
> I'll post with progress reports or if anything changes.
>
>

dont forget to add some salt, and maybe some horseradish too..
please... i think your "success" is just freak luck..     usually when the
weather warms up a little heads stop leaking as much..
keep us posted on your condiment coolant leak creation..
chris