Jim:
Perhaps I mis-understood, but if by using "prestone straight up", you mean
you didn't mix it 50-50 with water, then you did a bad thing.  Antifreeze is
designed to be mixed equally with water for maximum temperature protection.
And why do you believe that a "local guru who has 50+ years of air cooled
experience" can competently advise you about your water-cooled engine's
needs (even if it's based on an air-cooled) ?

Cary

----- Original Message -----
From: Jim Morgan <JM060356@AOL.COM>
To: <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2003 10:01 PM
Subject: Re: water pump R&R

> Greetings Volks,
> A promised report on water pump replacement. 5 hr. start to finish. 4
scraped
> knuckles and $70.00 later cooling system fulshed,drained,filled flushed
till
> clear, drained, pumped replaced then filled and bled. At least I had clean
> water driping on me insted of coolant. I used prestone straight up. Where
there
> is water there will be corrosion on the advice of my local guru who has
50+
> years air cooled experience. My level sensor never did work so no big deal
I had
> more important things to spend time on
> The one useful tool I had was a set of short wrenches (not wenches) that I
> borrowed.
> It seems that the pump had been off and regular bolts used in place of
Allen
> hex bolts. A minor P. I. T. A.   As to air getting into the system, we
will
> see
>
>
> Jim Morgan 86GL
> "Breadbox" 208,000.0
> Westlake,Ohio
>
>