Actually you either have a cracked head or more likely the head studs failed
to maintain pressure under load (that stretch preload thing) the internal
gaskets finally gave out from the gases burning through them.

Dennis

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
Benny boy
Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 11:02 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Coolant pressure test... video.

Later tonight i went back to the shop with some new test i had in my head, i
found coolant in #3, plug was wet like hell. A leak down resulted in a climb
of 8 psi in the coolant pressure tester.

Do you get that? Injecting compress air into the suspicious cylinder wile
the coolant system was pump to 10 psi made the coolant tester gauge climb to
18 PSI, even more.

Reverse situation...

I'm perplex about those test, i can't inject air into the cylinder (lost of
pressure on the coolant pressure test #1) but i can do the opposite, of
course the leak down as more pressure than the coolant tester pump.

So yes, what we have here is a deteriorated head gasket.

Ben