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ahhh...is that the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning for the early water system??


Em
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Well some good news at least... re the broken bleeder valve... I think it can be fixed without resorting to ironmongery! I thought I would share this in case anyone else ever has the same weird engine and does the same thing to it!

Here it is in all its broken glory (part # 025121082)
[img:641:479]http://i-luv.info/P1010270.JPG[/img]

Basically the small hose on the right was previously clamped onto a plastic tube which stuck out from below the the knurled screw thingy. The pipe snapped off leaving a stub which has a support under it.

THE FIX: I will melt, saw or file through the support, where it joins the stub, to remove the right-hand half of it, to make some space under the bottom of the stub. Then I can shove the hose over the stub and clamp it on. Might need a slightly wider hose, but the old one is knackered so I am going to have to do something about that anyway...

Oh yeah, and by blowing into it with hands over the rad hose openings, I now also know that the connection from the lower rad hose to the small hose is ALWAYS open. The knurled screw thingy only controls whether the upper hose is also connected to these.

cheers
Vince

PS... it is discontinued... but BusDepot.com sell a replacement for... OMG... $175

ambivert,

You wrote......

Oh yeah, and by blowing into it with hands over the rad hose openings

.......... don't tell us........... you can do a fair rendition of.........."Das Lied der Deutschen"

Mike

no, but I tried whilst it was still connected to the rad hoses and it sounded more like this [img:180:138]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... lphorn.jpg[/img]

I broke mines as well and luvbus has been of road for two months trying to locate one. VW stopped making this part two years ago. I believe it is used to bypass the thermostst on bleeding air out of radiator and the small take off is used for automatic choke but i am not an expert. I have managed to locate one from a scrap van but i am trying to make something from copper pipes etc. It seems a bad design easily broken as says in Haynes manual, and they changed design from 1985 on and thats the part Just Kampers stock. I had no luck with all the big vw people from vw camper bus magazine and found out that most scrap vans get exported to south africa as they still run them out there.Very frusrtrating.