[widmerdude]

New one for me, so just lately i would get out of the car after getting somewhere and smell antifreeze but no leakes, and it smells like in the front of the car. This has been happening for a few weeks, now when I turn on my defrost I get a hint of antifreeze smell, and recently i noticed after it warms up I have good warm air but when I idlefor a few its cool air but hot after i get going again. I have my SCT scanner running cooling temp when i go to work in the am and as it warms it gets all the way to 216 then the termo must open and temp goes to termo setting of 190, and when the cool air comes out the temp still runs at 185 to 190. The water pump is a year old, same with the thermo, did a radiator flush at the same time. I have my thoughts of heater core, but some of these things dont add up, Ideas?

[xtreme 2]

air pocket in the coolant. fill up the crossover tube (there is a bolt in the middle of the engine with a 9/16" head) the fill up the radiator. Replace bolt on crossover tube and start motor. Monitor fluid level for 20 minutes and keep it full. When car warms up and tstat opens keep it full.

Drive around for 30 minutes, come back and let it cool. Repeat.

[stephen]

+1 on the post above. Bleed the cooling system and see if that helps. However, likely
you are losing coolant and the problem will occur again.

It could be a heater core leak.

The best thing is to test the cooling system with a pressure tester to see where it's leaking. If it's an external leak it should show up.

The most common sources of internal leaks on these cars are front cover gasket and head gasket.

[xtreme 2]

have you checked your oil to see if it has a chocolate milk consistency?

any smoke from the tailpipe?

[mustangmike!]

Dont even get me started

[mustangmike!]

Here is an idea before you do anything else.

Socket (15mm I think ? maybe 13 idk) unscrew the bleeder from the bypass pipe.

Take of radiator cap. (please do while cool...)

Fill coolant level at radiator cap until full, put cap on.

Take funnel, fill up SLOWLY through the bleeder hole in the pipe, let air bubbles bubble out, keep filling till full. Screw bleeder back down, good n tight will work, dont break shit ...

At this point your coolant is filled to its highest point in the container, if their are no air bubbles in the system. "max capacity" if you wish.

Now make sure coolant overflow resivoir is filled exactly to the "Full Cool" mark so you may have a reference point.

But the coolant must be completely cooled so that none of it is expanded. Heat water steam pressure. Ya feel me bruh !

Anyways.

Do this. drive around a while, get it good and warm stir it all up, move some air bubbles around. Let it cool completely (may need to do this morning by morning if it cant completely cool in 1 day) but just repeat the process. 2-3 times.

Let me know how that goes.

[xtreme 2]

I think that's exactly what I told him to do Mike... LOL

[mustangmike!]

go read your shit and make it into english lol
+ you left out details

Ill vouch that headgaskets are fucking tricky.


Btw, what your is your car ?

[xtreme 2]

I write instruction manuals for a living. Sometimes I like it to be plain and simple. My response is more than easy enough to follow.

[mustangmike!]

Originally Posted by xtreme 2 air pocket in the coolant. fill up the crossover tube (there is a bolt in the middle of the engine with a 9/16" head) the fill up the radiator. Replace bolt on crossover tube and start motor. Monitor fluid level for 20 minutes and keep it full. When car warms up and tstat opens keep it full. Drive around for 30 minutes, come back and let it cool. Repeat.

Should be able to remove yellow and still make sentence ...

-_- so tell me wtf you meant lol.


+ it "sounds" like your more leaning towards doing an air bleed by running it till the T stat opens and all the air comes out the bleeder. ... Not what I meant to do at all.

[xtreme 2]

no where did I mention bleeding through the crossover tube. That's why I told him to put the bolt back on.

Remove that bolt and start the car. See what happens...

[xtreme 2]

[mustangmike!]

wanna bet ?

[mustangmike!]

Originally Posted by xtreme 2

I told your mom not to fart in the pool ...

[xtreme 2]

bet on what?

[mustangmike!]

If the car is cool their wont be problems their till it gets hot and the thermo opens up. Then you get hot ass shit gushing out !

[xtreme 2]

Originally Posted by mustangmike! I told your mom not to fart in the pool ...

you wish you could get that close to my mom. She'd rock your socks off!

[mustangmike!]

Originally Posted by xtreme 2 you wish you could get that close to my mom. She'd rock your socks off!

If she can fart some water up that high she can probably "rock" the whole world w/ one step ...


Anyways enough bs on thread, OP do those steps and let us know what happens. Thanks