Cooling System Fun (a.k.a. Always listen to your Scirocco)

[juliemac57 at hotmail.com (Julie Macfarlane)]

These cars do take care of us. When the valves crashed (an assumption) I was 
1/4 of a mile from home. It picked back up to get in the drive way.
Next day? Never ran right again.



Julie Macfarlane
Menlo Park Research & Development
Internet Application Developer
www.menloparkrandd.com
www.montgomeryweb.org
Amsterdam NY





>From: "Joe Doty" <Joe.Doty@lcnetwork.com>
>To: "Brad Sterling" <bgsterling@earthlink.net>,"Scirocco List (E-mail)" 
><scirocco-L@scirocco.org>
>Subject: RE: Cooling System Fun (a.k.a. Always listen to your Scirocco)
>Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 15:28:55 -0700
>
>Excellent work.
>
>My brother and I had to do something similar on my 16v when that little
>5" hose between the water pump and the metal tube that goes around the
>block.  We were 200 miles away from home and ended up making it to a
>chevron before losing all of the coolant.  We cut off a 5" piece of that
>$70 breather hose to put in its place.  Didn't have any overheating
>problems after that either, despite the hose being non braided, spongy
>rubber.
>
>Joe
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Brad Sterling [mailto:bgsterling@earthlink.net]
>Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 3:00 PM
>To: Scirocco List (E-mail)
>Subject: Cooling System Fun (a.k.a. Always listen to your Scirocco)
>
>Hi all,
>
>	A quick story with a lesson.  Asking for help:  Last week, after
>pulling
>into the garage, I turn to my wife and say, "Do you smell coolant?"  She
>said "no", but that's not unusual.  I always hear/smell things in that
>car
>that she doesn't.  I claim it's because me and the Scirocco are in tune
>with
>each other.  She claims I'm mental.  Anyway, I did nothing about it.
>Crying
>for help:  I find a small oil spot under the Scirocco in the garage.
>Hmm,
>it doesn't feel greasy like oil, more slippery or slimey.  More curious,
>I
>still did nothing about it.  Demanding help:  While eating dinner on
>Sunday
>after shopping with the wife, the assistant manager at Sweet Tomatoes
>comes
>over and asks if I own a little, black VW.  "Yes, I do," I say proudly.
>"Well the manager just came in and said it was smoking and leaking all
>over
>the place out in the parking lot."  I go and check it out.  The upper
>radiator hose has a 3-4 inch gash in it and is spewing coolant all over
>the
>block.  I'm about 30 miles from home, but it's okay.  My car loves me.
>How
>do I know?  The restaurant is less than a block from a Home Depot.  I
>walked
>over and bought a pair of pliers, a razor blade, and some duct tape.
>Slicing off about 5 inches from the radiator hose, I was able to
>reattach
>the shortened hose to the block.  I then took the ~1.5 quarts of water
>that
>we had brought with us from home and filled the reservoir.  Thirty miles
>later, we're at home with no overheating problems.  So, the lessons
>learned:
>One, you can cut about 5" off the upper radiator hose and it will still
>fit.
>Two, always listen to your Scirocco when she's talking to you.  Three,
>my
>Scirocco isn't near as vindictive as my Alfa Romeo was.
>
>	Off to talk to the Potter people...
>
>-Brad
>'86.5 Scirocco 16v
>
>
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