Be wary of this!  My second of three sets of water jacket gaskets blew in
this manner with little forewarning starting with just a minor drip.
Luckily I was 1/2 mile from home when she blew and I was able to "limp"
home.  If you have over 80,000 miles on your van and have not changed the
head gaskets and related seals, I would not travel farther from home than
you can return with no coolant!

A headgasket veteran - 3 sets in 200,000 miles.

Justin Jensen
SLC Utah
-----Original Message-----
From: Don Gibbons <dgibbons@PRESRAY.COM>
To: Vanagon@VANAGON.COM <Vanagon@VANAGON.COM>
Date: Tuesday, March 31, 1998 12:03 PM
Subject: Re[2]: J.B. Weld Head Repair

>The gaskets (water jacket) do not fail "catastrophically" They will seep
for a
>time then leak and then leak worse. I takes time for them to fail. Its just
>something that one has to keep an eye on.
>