You should have the head inspected-tested for cracks. Very common on the
Diesels.

Dennis

>From: Florian Speier <groups.florian@GMAIL.COM>
>Reply-To: Florian Speier <groups.florian@GMAIL.COM>
>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>Subject: How to do a head reseal on a diesel vanagon?
>Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2007 17:25:08 -0700
>
>I have to do a cylinder head gasket job on a friends 82 diesel westy. Does
>anyone have a better writeup than the bentley, especially, do i need these
>specific tools for the drive belt?
>The engine is currently bubbling out coolant between head and block....
>argh.  I know that on an engine with already 165k on it, this might be a
>temporary fix, but I am unsure of the costs and time involved in a
>1.9conversion, so I guess its gonna be just fixing it for now.
>
>Any advice is greatly appreciated!
>
>thanks a lot
>flo