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Old 01-21-2007, 10:00 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Antifreeze/coolant

Over the past months the coolant has needed to be filled up to full.. There is not antifreeze in my driveway, and the exhaust smells the same way it did before this problem has been occuring...jw if anyone had this same issue...i was under the hood a few ago just seeing how shit was and bc i needed to see how i was going to have to get at 2 bolts on my exhaust which has been leaking. I found a small hole at the bottom of the radiator where u can drain the coolant...there was a small amount of coolant at the end...i figure this was where the coolant was leaking, so i turned the little "valve" very tight so that hopefully it closed off the opeining...if this was not the cause...any idea where this coolant could be leaking to?
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if you have a blown head gasket it would burn up water when you drive, and steam would come out of the exhuast.

-and your oil may look like chocolate milk.

do a compression test to test if you have a leak.
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Since you did find a leak, no matter how small it was, what I would do is fill the coolant reservoir to th high level and watch it for a few days to see if you have solved the problem.
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Sounds like you have found the leak. If it turns out that it is somewhere else, a shop can do a pressure test on your coolent system. This should be cheap and will quickly show you where the problem is.
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