[Vwdiesel] Tattle tail plug in head?

[Kelly McMullen]

Hmm. Seems like proper anti-freeze mix has BP somewhere around 255-260 with
a 10 psi radiator cap.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Shawn Wright" <swright at zuiko.sls.bc.ca>
To: <vwdiesel at vwfans.com>
Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 6:37 PM
Subject: Re: [Vwdiesel] Tattle tail plug in head?


On 18 Apr 2005 at 20:27, LBaird119 at aol.com <LBaird119 at aol.com> wrote:

>   Most of those tattle tales are a surface, glued on device and it'd be
glued
>
> to the frost plug.  The center melts out sure, but there's still a freeze
> plug
> behind it.  :-)  If the head reaches 250F there's likely no coolant left
in
> there.

Ah... that's how it works... In that case, maybe I'll just pry it off now...
I don't plan on
ever going back to this shop, so I'd rather it wasn't there. Pics will
follow later, I'm
going ahead with it tonight... wish me luck!

Shawn Wright
http://zuiko.sls.bc.ca/~swright
'85 Jetta D
'88 Westy 2.1L, soon to be 1.6TD 5 speed
 (see progress at http://members.shaw.ca/vwdiesels)
'82 Diesel Westy


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