Don,
    I would personally prefer a small leak than the evils wrought by the
Bar's Stop Leak. Especially in the Vanagon cooling system. Check the
archives. Besides that it sounds like you are doing a good job.

Ken Lewis
86 Transporter Crew Cab
60 356 T-5 Porsche
http://neksiwel.20m.com/
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