Well, the worst that has happened to our 91 Westy
is a coolant leak on a cross country trip from
Sacramento, CA to Tewksbury, Ma.  The flang that
goes to the passenger side rear of the engine from
the hose that traverses between the power steering
belt was leaking enough to lose a pint about every
60 - 120 miles.  This was about 1/3 way through
Iowa.  Stopped and bought 4 jugs of Autobahn coolant
and made it all the way but stopping about every
120 miles to add coolant.  Fixed it at the apartment
with a new flange and gasket and some high temp
goop.  Hasn't given me a problem since.

However, I'd like to know what kind of coolant hose
fixes people bring along for just-in-case?

I haven't really had any other problems and have
been across the country and back to CA a couple
of times since then.

Aircooleds have their problems.  Just a different
set of issues....

Steven
--- Zoltan <zolo@FOXINTERNET.NET> wrote:

> See!?  Almost all of these are water cooled related,
> including the Power
> steering and the likes.
> The Air Cooled vans are really holding up well on
> the trips.  Especially if
> they are carburetor models, the likes they have in
> Europe.  Wonderful.  I
> never had to open the rear door.
> Zoltan

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