I have a friend who has a 85 GL, and is having heating up problems in
slow / in town traffic.

I told him first to check the thermostat and put the palm of his hand
over the front of the radiator to see if it has any cold spots.

I think he's having plugged radiator syndrome.

At highway speed it cools fine.

Now here's the punch line.

His mechanic told him that Vanagon's have an inherant cooling fluid
movement problem, and he is going to add an electric auxillary water
pump  in line         ( somewhere ) in the coolant tubes to move the H2O
more efficiantly to the radiator.

And for the paultry sum of 500 big one's.

I told him to get in the Van, turn the key, and get it the heck outa
there.

I now there is a bunch of stuff I haven't seen or heard of in this life.
But this seems really too wild even for me.

Anybody heard / seen of anything so crazy?

RC