Well, if it gets cold enough, the coolant will turn solid all right.

The post could use some re-writing for clarity's sake, ESPECIALLY since it's
addressing a guy who evidently is just barely starting out on vanagon
knowledge. 

'air-free coolant' would have been more understandable.

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
James Henry
Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 12:15 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: air bleeding

Please tell us about "solid coolant". Is it orange, blue, or green? :-)

Jim

>Then take a 13mm box wrench and remove the radiator bleed screw. If solid
coolant comes out, replace immediately and put things back together.
>If air comes out, wait until solid coolant appears.