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[QUOTE]Originally posted by MR. STALLION: [QB] This is the way it all happened.........I hit the freeway heading home on wed. and I notice that my coolant light has come on(great).....but I think for a minute and realize that I just filled it up the day before :confused: I get home and it's completely empty. I fill it up and call it a night. I drive to work the next morning and everything is fine. I take my luch, go out to my car and notice a puddle of cooland streaking down the lot(fuuuuck) I check the coolant level, and sure enough it fricken empty :mad: I though, o.k.......my radiator has a leak, so I go to Kragens and buy that stop leak stuff. I get back to work and decide i'll fix it when I get home........After work I go to start her up....it's starts fine with no probs....so I pop the hood, and I notice it is dripping out from where the thermostat is(you know, where the thick black hose comes from your radiator and connects to that gray aluminum thing which goes into the intake). I think o.k. i'll buy a gasket then retighten everything and it'll be o.k. I go to pep boys and buy one, even though the car doesn't have one stock. I put the orange rubber gasket on and retighten. I get on capitol and smash on it......the coolant light comes back on, and a little smoke(steam) starts coming from the hood. I pull over and check it. The orange rubber gasket has broken and it'd leaking again :mad: My whole motor is sprayed with it too. I try tightening it down as much as possible, but it still leaks. I hit the freeway from my house and exit Hostetter off 680. Frank pulls next to me after the exit and says my car is spraying coolant all over his winshield(he was behind me). We get to our destination and I notice that my whole rear bumper has coolant sprayed all over it. I leave my car and return in the morning to check where it's leaking from. I jack it up and start it.....it's dripping somewhere where my engine meets the tranny, like right after the oil pan. I don't know if coolant runs anywhere around there, so I call you. I took your advice and went ahead and dissconnected the 2 hoses that go directly into the dash and bought a piece of hose & 2 clamps, & bypassed them together. I start it up and everything is fine for like 5 minutes,then it starts leaking again, but from where the thermostat is. I go to winchester auto and buy another gasket, and ask the guy what I should use to keep it sealed good. He recommends this blue stuff(forget what it's called)....some kind of adhesive that drys(he recommended it) in an hour. So I go back to the car put on the gasket and some of the adhesive. Now the damn rubber orange gasket breaks again!!! I toss it and reassemble the hose without it(it didn't come with one anyway) and put the adhesive all around it and waited about 1 1/2hrs. I go and start it, and everything is fine, no leaking(only for a few minutes). Steve's says when I drive off all kinds of water sprays out of my exhaust. I drive around the corner and come back. Now he says it's stopped. I check my coolant level, and it's fine :D I get home and re-check before I park. Checked the spot where it was origonally leaking(where the thermostat is), under the car near the tranny(where it was really pouring), and the coolant level.....it's all good. so this morning I go to start her up. I let it run for bout 2 min. I pop the hood and it's fucking leaking from the thermostat.....where I put all that damn sealant too. it's coming from betewwn the bolts( it has 2, 1 on each side). I just want to know if i use a better sealant and make sure i seal it good will this go away?????? or is it something else? Is it my damn plastic intake? What the hell is causing this. Oh by the way, the coolant level was still fine this morning, it just started dripping from where the thermostat is....again. What do I do???? I know if I had driven it to work the shit would've spilled all out again. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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