The 2.0 lives - part III (at my wit's end)

[wasserbox@yahoo.com (Mark Mages)]

You should see the directions for flushing the vanagon
radiator.

Raise front end 5 inches
Open the 3 bleeder valves (yes, 3)
Open the 2 drain plugs, and disconnect 3 hoses
(radiator, 2 @ T-Stat) and open the secondary (yes
secondary) overflow resevoir
flush with water while revving at 2000rpm

reconnect all

Fill with coolant
run at 2000 rpm
close 2 of 3 bleeder valves
run at 2000 rpm
close last valve when coolant stops bubbling

Lots and lots of fun :)


--- Allyn <amalventano1@comcast.net> wrote:
> is that a clean radiator? i.e. new? has stop-leak
> ever been used in the system? i can re-post my
> radiator flush thing from way back when if need
> be...
> Al
> 
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: Jeff Toomasson 
>   To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org 
>   Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 12:10 AM
>   Subject: The 2.0 lives - part III (at my wit's
> end)
> 
> 
>   Fresh hoses, put back the original thermostat
> (which was a 71'C, BTW), drilled two 1/16" holes
> into it, filling the radiator and the block...what
> else? The goddamn radiator is still not getting hot.
> I wonder if the 8mm deep socket I lost during the
> swap is floating around in there somewhere (and you
> think I'm joking...)
> 
>   I guess it's gotta be burped some more, but how
> much of this has to be done?
> 
>   What is some unspecting roc owner took their car
> to JiffyLube or something to have their coolant
> flushed? Would the technician (if you can call them
> that) know to fill the system this way? Doubt it...
> Lousy fucking design. The Mk1 design is so much more
> straight forward....
> 
>   I'm leaning on taking it to the damn shop - I
> can't afford to be without my daily driver for this
> long...
> 
>   JT
> 
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