Where do you measure the 16" to?
The bottom of the frame? Tires? Top of the radiator???

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Karl Wolz wrote:

> John,
>
> VW specifies jacking up the front end sixteen inches AND running the engine
> at 3000 rpm so that the water pump will push all of the air uphill through
> the system to the radiator and pressurize the system.
>
> If you think 16" is way up there, you should have seen the first time I bled
> the system and misread 40cm as 40".  Thank God it didn't fall off the
> stacked up cement blocks.
>
> Karl Wolz
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John P. Flaherty <jflaherty@PIVOT.NET>
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Date: Monday, March 22, 1999 7:30 PM
> Subject: Re: Idling high and uneven. Problem filling with coolant.
>
> >I too had difficulty getting coolant out the bleeder. Turns out I didn't
> >have it jacked high enough. 16 inches is waaayyyy up there. Once I had it
> >high enough, it came out no problem, and before the engine was warm.
> >
> >John Flaherty
> >'84 GL
> >'74 SB
> >