Harold, sounds like you have a lot of air in your coolant system and not
enough coolant.  If the cooling system is incorrectly bled, the remaining
air will force more coolant out into the overflow container.  The archives
is full of postings about bleeding the cooling system.

John Lauterbach
Macon, GA
'84 7-passenger

----- Original Message -----
From: "Harold Jaynes" <HJaynes1@AOL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2003 5:06 PM
Subject: 84 Vanagon heating problem/T-5 Microbus PowerPoint

> I wanted to thank those that help me with my technical questions.  I
pretty
> much just drive the think and my days of greasy bloody knuckles are long
> over, but I continue to drive my Vanagon. I recently put up a post on my
> heating problem....actually a 'lack of' heating problem.  There is no heat
at
> all but the fans do work. I'm trying to figure a down and dirty way of
> analyzing what the problem might be.  Many indicated it might be a heater
> core problem.  One thing I should say is, every time I start the Van up,
the
> temperature gauge goes directly to hot and the light blinks immediately.
> This has done this a long time.  The only exception to this has been when
> hoses were replaced by my local repair shop. The light did not blink nor
did
> the gauge go to hot for maybe one day each time, then it would go back to
its
> evil ways.  Does anybody have any thoughts since I'm assuming there might
be
> some correlation between the two.  Neither the front nor the rear heater
> works, although the fan works on both.
>
> Secondly, I love the Microbus that will be coming out in a few years. I'll
> definitely buy one. I went out and bought a Matchbox car in a local
> supermarket of the T-5.  Because I've had the flu the past few days, I've
had
> some time to kill so I put together 56 images of the new Microbus in a
> PowerPoint slide presentation.  If anybody would like this, I would be
happy
> to emailit.  I've gotten them off of many foreign sites and many of the
> pictures are great.  There's even a Barbie T-5 now!   Anyway, if anyone
would
> like this, I'd be happy to to email the slide show.
>
> Thanks again for all the help.
>
> Harold Jaynes
> Washington DC
>