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Subject:Re: Vanagon Digest - 10 Mar 1998 to 11 Mar 1998
From:Garrick Chang
Date:Thu, 12 Mar 1998 13:18:17 -0800

> I installed a VW remanufactured engine just over a year ago.  Wasn't able to
> make it legal and on the road until October '97.  Yesterday, after only 3000
> miles, I found a dripping from the engine.  I hope it is one of the little
> hoses that go into the oil cooler, but it only leaks after a highway drive.
> Driving around town, it doesn't leak.  Hoses, in my experience, always leak
>

Doug,

I've just gone through a very similar experience having had the heads
redone last spring.  Mine started leaking from the left rear only after
getting hot.  Turned out to be the expansion tank had cracked along the
seam but was also leaking from the level sensor. Replaced the tank but
recently have had a tough time getting a new sensor to seal properly.
Hope yours is relatively minor like this.

Garrick

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