ok so the heads are back on after a few mistakes and I adjusted the valves
(one push rod seems a little loose in some firing positions, normal??) I
filed her up with oil and started with distilled water and found a leak a
the new water pump... I had mistakenly put the tab for the oil cooler hose??
on the bottom of the water pump, not between the screw and thew water
pump...duh...but now I seem to have a leak that I can't resolve, although
maybe I'll try permatex in the morning.  As I fill the van with coolant  it
starts to drip from the thermostat housing.  If I take off the top of the
housing and let the water overflow a little, the drip stops, so it is coming
from the seam between the two halves of the thermostat housing.  Bentley
does not show a gasket there, only an o ring around the thermostat...I've
torqued the bolts that hold the two halves together as tight as I dared,
still a leak.  Suggestions?? Thanks

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Dan Erlandson
Flemington, NJ
> danoer1@eclipse.net
91 VW Vanagon GL 170,000 mi
99 VW Passat 107,000 mi