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Subject:Re: More cooling fun..
From:Bulley-Hewlett & Associates
Date:Tue, 10 Nov 1998 08:38:38 -0500

This time I stopped and kept the motor idling to see if I could discover
anything else. I saw air bubbling into the expansion tank. In trying to see
where the air was coming from, I followed the plastic loop and noticed that
if I pinched closed the small hose from the right cylinder bank to the
plastic loop - the bubbling stopped.
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Uh, oh.
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Are there places that the cooling system will leak that are not easily
found?
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Yes, the head gaskets.
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Also, how do you check to see if the heads are leaking?
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You just did. Not having a wasserboxer myself, I am not *positive*, but it
sure sounds like you have a bum head gasket (spilling compression into the
coolant) on the right side.

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