Does a 1999 Dodge Durango 5.2L have a cooling system bleeder on it's engine?

Hello,

A friend of mine had sent her 1999 Durango to a shop to get a water pump replaced (it needed it).

When she got it back she was told that the system had been tested and it had been ran for at least 17 miles to test it. Everything was suppose to be fine.

She had to drive it over 60 miles to get it home over mountins. Thank goodness it was 14 out that night she just got it home. By that time, all the fluid had leaked out under the truck. I looked at it and it seemed to be coming from around the front of the engine somewhere, but I couldn't tell from all the fluid that had sprayed in the engine compartment.

I thought it looked like they had put one of the hoses on wrong or the spring clamps, that they reused, were just too weak.

She called the shop back and they came up and picked it up.

Next day they were telling her that it was one of the heads and she was going to have to pay for the towing and the new repairs which was $1500. There was no indacation that the heads were the problem before the water pump went.

So the shop said that if she couldn't afford the bill that she could come down and sign the title over to them in return for payment for the towing and work that they had already done on the truck this time.

Sounded a bit funny to me. So she called them back the next day and said that she was going to come up and get the truck and take it to another shop. Needless to say the first shop changed their tune. NOW it was a cracked water neck. Much less to fix it, but she still had to pay for the tow bill.

NOW. What I woundering is weather or not the truck had a cooling system bleeder somewhere on the engine, and the first shop just left it open to cause this second problem.

We know they tryed to, what amounts to, steal the truck. We're woundering if they got her for the water neck and towing as well.

Thanks everyone.