I have been going over the 2015 HL I bought a couple weeks ago and was changing the serp belt, when I noticed a couple drips under the car. I had replaced the spark plugs yesterday and only ran the engine for a minute or so last night before quitting for the day. Those plugs kicked my butt for almost an hour to carefully work them out of the heads... Today I had to bump it over to get the belt to align and then started it again for only a minute to confirm it was on correctly. That is when I saw the liquid dripping out of the flex pipe seam. It has a greenish/yellow color to it and looks like coolant to me, not clear condensation. I have only driven this car about 250 miles since purchase and the radiator is low. The recovery canister seems to have some coolant in it, but the tube from the cap to reach it is missing. The plugs appear to be the original with 155k on them and fought me all the way out, but they all seem to be uniform color and no indication of burning coolant in any one cylinder.
Is there any history of this situation with the 3.5 ? any way a head could be cracked and leaking coolant in the exhaust without getting in the cylinder ?
Hmmm...looking at the pics, the second one from the left does appear to have slight blistering on the electrode, from liquid boiling. I'm going to take a closer look at that right now.
Is there any history of this situation with the 3.5 ? any way a head could be cracked and leaking coolant in the exhaust without getting in the cylinder ?
Hmmm...looking at the pics, the second one from the left does appear to have slight blistering on the electrode, from liquid boiling. I'm going to take a closer look at that right now.