Could be the water pump, hoses for the oil cooler, or the dreaded head
gaskets.

Dennis

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf
Of Toma Keller
Sent: Saturday, April 27, 2002 12:23 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Antifreeze leak

Well, I knew the honeymoon wouldn't last forever but I didn't expect it
to be over so soon.  Was driving my newly purchased '91 vanagon today
and parked and as is habit from my air-cooled buses, I looked under the
engine to see if I was dripping anything.  Sure enough off the lower
shroud back bolt on the left hand side was a drop of something that
splashed on the ground.  I of course wiped the driveway spot with my
finger and it smelled like Antifreeze.
For all of you veterans out there who have experienced this, where do I
look for the leak and how major is this?  What is its most likely cause?
I just ordered my Bentley from Bus Depot and it hasn't yet arrived but I
want to make sure that I don't cook my engine and want to keep the
original motor installed as long as possible.  Can someone give me a
clue as to what I am looking at here?  The engine has just over 101K
miles and the PO claims that he had no work done on it and only drove it
15K miles in the past 18 months.  There are no other tell tale symptoms
and so far, it hasn't lost enough fluid for me to notice in the reserve
tank.

Thanks,

Toma
'91 Vanagon GL
'66 Crew Cab
'66 21 Window Deluxe