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Well, here's the deal:
A bit under a year ago the previous owner had the coolant system flushed because of some clay-like dexcool clogging up the works. A few months later I purchased her, noticed one day the temp climbing pretty quickly and then over the 210 mark which I hadn't seen happen before. I was only about two blocks from home and it was just a hair over 210 so stupidly I babied her home.
Looking under the hood I noticed one of the coolant lines from the radiator was hot as hell and the other ambient. This is when I let it all cool down then looked in the radiator cap and then asked a bit more about the history and found out about the previous sludging. Anyway, there was some thick thick sludge in there agian. Since then I have flushed and changed the coolant a good 4-5 times. Finally I am at a point where it stays a liquid. :)
So all of that leads to the next part. I never get over 210 since that one day, but I notice that every day before I head out in the morning the coolant level in the radiator is down about 4 or 5 inches from the top of the fill neck. Have to pour a good 16oz at least of water into the radiator a day.. not the overflow.
I had a random SES light pop on about a mile from campus the other day but the car felt to be driving normal, unfortunatly after class when I wanted to go get scanned the SES was gone.
Any ideas? At first I figured it was air working out, but this is everyday... and lots of liquid. Then I thought maybe a pinhole leak that is steaming off (also I felt behind waterpump pulley after a long drive, dry as a bone, as is the little plastic L, no puddles ever either anywhere) but it's so much water that's missing everyday. So now I'm running out of ideas and thinking I'm burning it off. So far my oil is still clean, no water. Intake gasket?
Just trying to get some opinions from those in the know. Help?
A bit under a year ago the previous owner had the coolant system flushed because of some clay-like dexcool clogging up the works. A few months later I purchased her, noticed one day the temp climbing pretty quickly and then over the 210 mark which I hadn't seen happen before. I was only about two blocks from home and it was just a hair over 210 so stupidly I babied her home.
Looking under the hood I noticed one of the coolant lines from the radiator was hot as hell and the other ambient. This is when I let it all cool down then looked in the radiator cap and then asked a bit more about the history and found out about the previous sludging. Anyway, there was some thick thick sludge in there agian. Since then I have flushed and changed the coolant a good 4-5 times. Finally I am at a point where it stays a liquid. :)
So all of that leads to the next part. I never get over 210 since that one day, but I notice that every day before I head out in the morning the coolant level in the radiator is down about 4 or 5 inches from the top of the fill neck. Have to pour a good 16oz at least of water into the radiator a day.. not the overflow.
I had a random SES light pop on about a mile from campus the other day but the car felt to be driving normal, unfortunatly after class when I wanted to go get scanned the SES was gone.
Any ideas? At first I figured it was air working out, but this is everyday... and lots of liquid. Then I thought maybe a pinhole leak that is steaming off (also I felt behind waterpump pulley after a long drive, dry as a bone, as is the little plastic L, no puddles ever either anywhere) but it's so much water that's missing everyday. So now I'm running out of ideas and thinking I'm burning it off. So far my oil is still clean, no water. Intake gasket?
Just trying to get some opinions from those in the know. Help?
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