You may need to bleed the air from the system.
TEMiller

80 Westy Pokey wrote:

>I was checking my oil the other day and noticed that the
>coolant reserve was dry, so I filled it up with straight
>undilluted coolant. Shortly after the coolant light would not
>stop blinking despite the fact that the gauge read OK (note
>this even seemed to happen on a fresh cold engine). I thought
>maybe there was just a problem with the light. That was until
>I pulled over and there was steam coming out of the driver
>side air intake.
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>Any thoughts?
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>Thanks,
>Chris
>86 syncro westy
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