Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2011 14:39:35 -0800
Reply-To: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
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From: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
Subject: Re: Freeze Plugs was Oops - I let the engine freeze
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never had the problem myself.
50-50 mixture is so easy to have in there.
For most people if it's even 'sorta close' it's adequate.
and since it should be in there year-round ..
it sure 'should' be in all cars, no excuse not too really.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Hargrave" <thargrav@HIWAAY.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Friday, February 04, 2011 1:09 PM
Subject: Re: Freeze Plugs was Oops - I let the engine freeze
Usually it’s the radiator that goes first. Not a lot of mass and lots of
surface area = a fast freeze.
Tom
www.towercooler.com
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Scott Daniel - Turbovans
Sent: Friday, February 04, 2011 3:02 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Freeze Plugs was Oops - I let the engine freeze
re
You’d think a hose would go first. "
assuming this is about freezing coolant and damage from expansion ..
why would anyone think an rubber hose would fail from water freezing and
expanding ?
it's rubber..
rubber stretches nicely.
it's the hard parts..
the plastic ones for sure ...I can see those splitting easily..
they just fail from age and heat anyway sometimes.
Scott
turbovans
----- Original Message -----
From: "Loren Busch" <starwagen@GMAIL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Friday, February 04, 2011 8:42 AM
Subject: Re: Freeze Plugs was Oops - I let the engine freeze
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 10:25 PM, Karl Wolz <wolzphoto@q.com> wrote:
> You’d think a hose would go first. Unless the plug wasn’t quite seated
> right or there was a bit of corrosion involved.
>
And so would I. But a good mechanic had been working on the cooling system
and it was tight. Tight enough that it had split the "H" pipe two days
before. The whole thing was a story of blind leading the blind,
bullheadednes on my part and severe ignorance of the WBX cooling system.
And one of the reasons I'm on a bunch of Internet Vanagon lists (many of
which didn't exist at that time) and read the list wisdom and keep notes and
my current Westy runs like a top and I have a top mechanic that takes care
of what I can't do. That '85 is now history (RIP after a roolover).
>
>
>
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