Low on coolant, air or combustion gasses in cooling system, leak
somewhere, blockage somewhere.

Dennis

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf
Of Germain
Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2005 7:09 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Engine overheating and no heat from front heater

Hi Volks

Last day I was using my Westy to go to work. Traffic jam is frequent ( I
have to cross bridge) on my way to work and I was experimenting some
engine
overheating (Temp. gauge was reading a bit higher than 3/4 of the full
span)
in spite the fact the outside temperature was around 45F.

Every thing was OK for the first miles. After the engine warm up period,
I
was feeling the good heat coming from my front heater. Hovewer after a
while
I noticed the heat coming from the front heater was cool and the
temperature gauge was reading high. The overheating and no heat from the
Front heater problem was happening when the engine was idling. As soon
as
the engine is working at normal speed everything is OK.

Thank you for reading me. Any advice on what could be wrong?

Germain