Jan,
Not only was the old one plastic, so is the new one :) At least it has an
aluminum coolant crossover, which might last a bit longer. You have looked at
this site to determine if they still have a tank
http://www.evwparts.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Category_Code=VanCoolingHoses
Fabricating your own is so "Waltish" though :)
Bob
-------------- Original message from Jan Steinman <Jan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
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>
> > From: "Bob Docherty"
> >
> > I talked myself into a repair project. Well, the garage talked me
> > into it
> > :) $700 to replace my plastic Mercury Marquis intake manifold.
>
> You don't REALLY mean the intake manifold was plastic, do you? Gawd,
> things are not made to be repaired these days, are they?
>
> I've been battling with a 1982 diesel Vanagon. The coolant pressure
> reservoir was plastic. It developed hairline cracks and the bottom
> blew out. All the ones in junk yards are in similar condition, and you
> can't get a new one. The closest thing to that has different sized
> ports, and I cobbled together adaptors from different size tubing slid
> inside each other, which have failed.
>
> So I'm going to re-create the original out of metal with a MIG welder.
> I figure it will take me three days -- a week if I use aluminum. Hope
> it's worth it.
>
> (This came up at random. I wonder if de'Exupery had 1982 diesel
> Vanagons in mind when he wrote that...)
>
> :::: You know you have reached perfection of design not when you have
> nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away. --
> Antoine de'Exupery
> :::: Jan Steinman
>
>
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