Okay, points well taken. Before jumping to conclu$ion$, I will check
very carefully.

Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
84 Westfalia: "Mellow Yellow (The Electrical Banana)"
KG6RCR

On 4/30/2005 8:06 AM pete or nancy owsianowski wrote:

>Hi, Mike:
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>My leaks looked exactly like that.  Little drops of coolant when the weather
>got cold on either side of the engine coming down right at the gaskets.  I
>ran the engine up to temp and got under it with a bright light and saw the
>coolant was coming from above both sides pf the engine.
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>It turned out to be leaking on right side (2.1 WBX) from the flange
>connection and on the left from the Thermo housing and crapped out O rings.
>Replaced the flange with the metal part, put in a new thermo housing and
>rings and it is dry as a bone.
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>It was a happy day for Joe's Van!
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>Pete and Nancy
>'87 Westy
>"Joe's Van"
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>>Last night my wife and I decided to hop into Mellow Yellow, our 84
>>Westy, and have a sunset dinner at the beach. We drove a few miles south
>>on Highway 1 parked on a bluff overlooking the Pacific Ocean and ate
>>while watching the sunset. We had pelicans, we had surfers, I had a nice
>>bottle of Porter ale from the Stone Brewing Company.
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>>We talked about how much we love camping in Mellow Yellow. We talked
>>about the disappointing fact that the the engine has developed the
>>famous coolant leak at the head. And we decided that our choices were to
>>get rid of her or fix the problem. We want to fix the problem.
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>>Though I have replaced my 71 bus's engine myself, I just don't feel like
>>tackling the considerably harder job of pulling the engine to do the JB
>>Weld fix on the heads, or anything like that. I've got a full-time job,
>>I'm a student and a father, yada yada yada, and the bottom line is that
>>I just don't have the inclination to do the work myself.
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>>I can take it to Brad's Foreign Auto, in Encinitas (California), nearby.
>>A list member recommended them, and they did some brake work on my 71
>>bus -- they do seem to know what they are doing.
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>>But I need a plan before I give them Mellow Yellow. Find a good rebuilt
>>1.9l WBX? Are there such things? Hand them a printout of how the JB Weld
>>the cracks and ask them to do it? Find a Subaru Legacy engine, buy a
>>conversion kit and say, "Here, do this"?
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>>Though I'd like them to do the work, I just don't know what work I want
>>them to do.
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>>Folks - what's the reasonably-priced approach here that won't make a
>>shop crazy?
>>
>>--
>>Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
>>71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
>>84 Westfalia: "Mellow Yellow (The Electrical Banana)"
>>KG6RCR
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