Alright - thanks for the advice - I guess it's high time to learn how to do
a flush-n-fill!

Mark

On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 6:42 PM, Scott Daniel - Turbovans <
scottdaniel@turbovans.com> wrote:

> always  change out any coolant you can.
> So re-fill with high quality conventional anti-frz ( unless it has VW blue
> stuff or something special in it ) and water at 50/50.
>
> you can't change the coolant on a vanagon too much .  There's a lot in
> there, it gets old and yucky, and you never get all the old out of it.
>
> Actually .....what would be really right on most vanagons , is a full
> completey coolant flush ......
> drive it a week, and do it again, cause you never get all of  the old junk
> out, and vanagons are very very good at having cooling system parts
> deteriorate .........from heat and age, but also from leaving old coolant in
> there.
> *anything* you go do freshed up the coolant is always good.
> scott
> www.turbovans.com
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Brush" <mbrush@GMAIL.COM>
> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Sent: Sunday, June 28, 2009 6:56 PM
> Subject: to add or to flush-n-fill
>
>
>  I just put the oil cooler back on the van with the new gasket.  I'm
>> hopeful
>> that fixed my oil leak problem.  I was a messy job!  Lost more than 2
>> quarts
>> of coolant in the process.  So any thoughts on weather I should just go
>> ahead and drain the whole system and refill, or would it be o.k. to add
>> the
>> 2 quarts back (in the overflow tank) and hope the system doesn't get
>> airlock?  I understand the back-end has a self-bleeding system (the
>> plastic
>> tubing around the lip engine compartment).  thanks for your thoughts!
>>
>> Mark
>>
>> 1990 Westy GL
>>
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