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boblx2a
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For those who participated in my original thread about losing anti-freeze by some abnormal process, the culprit has been found! This is on my '85 with 45K on the clock.
I was losing coolant by some extra ordinary means because the engine did not appear to be burning it and there were no obvious signs of leakage.
Finally I got ahold of a Stant pressure kit. It quickly located the trouble spot. As I had previously mentioned there was a frozen nut on one of the thermostat housing bolts. Not having been in a hurry to deal with it I left it for a later time. I guess the gasket under that part of the housing was leaking. When I pressureized the system it held for a couple of minutes and then began leaking at that point.
Still not ready to deal with drilling out the bolt I used Bar's stop leak. It appears to have fixed it, for now anyway. I am sure I have not finished dealing with this problem. Sometime when I get real ambitious I will need to pull the Plenum (and possibly the intake manifold) and drill out the bolt.
Any suggestions on the best way to approach that?
Thanks...........
I was losing coolant by some extra ordinary means because the engine did not appear to be burning it and there were no obvious signs of leakage.
Finally I got ahold of a Stant pressure kit. It quickly located the trouble spot. As I had previously mentioned there was a frozen nut on one of the thermostat housing bolts. Not having been in a hurry to deal with it I left it for a later time. I guess the gasket under that part of the housing was leaking. When I pressureized the system it held for a couple of minutes and then began leaking at that point.
Still not ready to deal with drilling out the bolt I used Bar's stop leak. It appears to have fixed it, for now anyway. I am sure I have not finished dealing with this problem. Sometime when I get real ambitious I will need to pull the Plenum (and possibly the intake manifold) and drill out the bolt.
Any suggestions on the best way to approach that?
Thanks...........