The traditional way is to plug the hoses with suitably sized short bolts and
put a hose clamp on the outside.

I prefer Lumicolour pencil crayons myself...

On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 6:50 AM, Rocket J Squirrel <
camping.elliott@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks, Jeff. I wanted to look at that diagram of the cooling setup. The
> Gowesty external ATF cooler kit has you attaching the two ends of the
> now-unused coolant hoses together and they are presently dangling down
> next to the transaxle in an unattractive and sloppy way. In order to
> simplify the setup* I thought I might just remove them and cap them off
> with some kind of cap which I have not yet figured out.**
>
> The diagram shows that I would not be removing some important coolant
> path. Since there is no separate drawing for the manual transmission
> cooling system for the same years I bet that using a little White-Out on
> the diagram  on 19.10 to remove the ATF loop would result in the cooling
> diagram for the manual transmission version.
>
> ===============
> * Simpler is better. In the face of a zombie attack one does not need to
> deal with superannuated hoses.
>
> ** Suggestions for this?
>
> --
> Rocky J Squirrel
>
>
> On Thu, 2011-05-26 at 23:24 -0700, Jeff Schwaia wrote:
> > You can try this one:
> >
> > http://www.vanagonparts.com/cooling_refill.html
> >
> > It's kind of Vanagon generic.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Jeff
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf
> Of Rocket J Squirrel
> > Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2011 10:53 PM
> > To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> > Subject: Anything like this for 1.9L?
> >
> > Looking for a diagram like this but for the 1.9L Vanagon:
> >
> > <http://www.benplace.com/cooling_system_flow.htm>
> >
> > -- RJS
> > (Reference to the imminent zombie apocalypse have been removed from this
> > sig for reasons of politeness)
> >
>

--
Jake

1984 Vanagon GL 1.9 WBX - 'The Grey Van'
1986 Westy Weekender/2.5 SOHC Subie - 'Dixie'

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