[Vwdiesel] Tattle tail plug in head?

[Shawn Wright]

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
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'82 Diesel Westy