In Honduras

We are now in Honduras, after a few days in which

I made a coolant pressure testing device with a bike pump and some hose:

Then patched a leaking tank with a lot of epoxy and plastic from a water jug:

Then drove to San Salvador on this patch, which started leaking again as soon as I parked at the auto parts store. Turns out that a tank that has very hot coolant at 15 PSI is hard to patch well, and epoxy doesn’t like to be heated and cooled over and over again.

Anyway, for some reason this place in San Salvador stocked the part (which is a specific reservoir for an 86-91 Vanagon, which was never imported anywhere in the Americas other than the US and Canada). Don’t ask me why they had it, but I was happy they did.

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