re
You’d think a hose would go first. "

assuming this is about freezing coolant and damage from expansion ..
why would anyone think an rubber hose would fail from water freezing and
expanding ?
it's rubber..
rubber stretches nicely.

it's the hard parts..
the plastic ones for sure ...I can see those splitting easily..
they just fail from age and heat anyway sometimes.

Scott
turbovans
----- Original Message -----
From: "Loren Busch" <starwagen@GMAIL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Friday, February 04, 2011 8:42 AM
Subject: Re: Freeze Plugs was Oops - I let the engine freeze

On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 10:25 PM, Karl Wolz <wolzphoto@q.com> wrote:

>  You’d think a hose would go first.  Unless the plug wasn’t quite seated
> right or there was a bit of corrosion involved.
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And so would I.  But a good mechanic had been working on the cooling system
and it was tight.  Tight enough that it had split the "H" pipe two days
before.  The whole thing was a story of blind leading the blind,
bullheadednes  on my part and severe ignorance of the WBX cooling system.
And one of the reasons I'm on a bunch of Internet Vanagon lists (many of
which didn't exist at that time) and read the list wisdom and keep notes and
my current Westy runs like a top and I have a top mechanic that takes care
of what I can't do.  That '85 is now history (RIP after a roolover).

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