Leaking coolent

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s13@FULL BOOST 19psi
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my car is like dripping coolent and its not comeing out of the raidiator its comeing from the little plastic box on the right hand side. thought maybe i had just overfilled it and it was all the accses coolent but its not it drainded half of it in 2 days?? what should i do because i looked to see if maybe the hose was maybe loose or something and its not so do u thing i punctured something???


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redtop91
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S13 coolant overflow tanks have a tendency to crack. Buy an OEM replacement if you must but I'd recommend the Circuit Sports Aluminum tank so you don't have to worry about cracks anymore.

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s13@FULL BOOST 19psi
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r u shure thats what it is because when i got under my car and looked it seemed to be leaking from the actual hose so im like confused because i know how the tanks always crack all my friends with s13's have duck tape or some kind of sealnt on them but you might be right so im going to go take the tank out and see thanks alot i really appreciate it

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Well you said the coolant was coming out of the plastic box so I assumed that is where the problem was...
s13@FULL BOOST 19psi wrote:my car is like dripping coolent and its not comeing out of the raidiator its comeing from the little plastic box on the right hand side.


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