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I'm with Mr. McNeely.  If you can swell the head gaskets AND they are only
in the seep stage, that's fine.  However, when the water pump starts
leaking, there's a good chance that catastrophic failure is only a few miles
down the road.  I've been stranded twice by being an optimist on water pump
issues.  Now I'm a realist - replace it NOW. <<

OK, I hear you guys. What you are saying is that my 5 day camping trip next
weekend during my wife and I's 20th wedding anniversary may be cut short by
Murphy's law that since I know about the WP failing it is guaranteed to fail
in East Nowhere, DE on Sunday afternoon.  My wife is already on the "edge"
that we are going group camping with 25 VW buses on our anniversary. Not
sure if that ride with Buford Buddcrack in the AAA flatbed would push her
over the edge or not....

I'll review the archive and the Haynes manual but I will probably have to
have my mechanic do since I have a funeral to go to Saturday and may not
have time to get to it myself.

Thanks again for everyone's help.

Bryan