NEED HELP FINDING A COOLANT LEAK

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NEED HELP FINDING A COOLANT LEAK

Postby Blanco_SB » Tue Aug 30, 2022 7:13 am

I’ve been having over heating problems after trying to bleed the system from installing a mishimoto fan shroud and nismo thermostat, I also put a z1 high pressure rad cap on the stock radiator to see if that would help. I live in Southern California so temps are over 100 every day right now. I drove for a while and temps were low but they suddenly rose so I pulled over and turned off the car and heard drops so I checked and saw a decent pool of antifreeze which stopped after a couple seconds, I let it cool down and topped off then went home. I go through about a gallon a week of antifreeze. Front driver side right by the wheel, I tried searching for any info but no luck. If anybody has any idea what this could be, it would be greatly appreciated.
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Re: NEED HELP FINDING A COOLANT LEAK

Postby AZhitman » Tue Aug 30, 2022 6:10 pm

Chasing a coolant leak is purely guessing without testing it in-place. Go get (or rent) a pressure test kit (not expensive). It's a special cap that you attach in place of your regular cap and a pump is attached. Manually pump up the pressure to 15 psi, and start tracing leaks.

If you want to get really fancy, add luminous dye and get a cheap blacklight. I keep both on hand for tracing leaks.

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Re: NEED HELP FINDING A COOLANT LEAK

Postby Blanco_SB » Tue Aug 30, 2022 8:39 pm

Thanks for the response, will try that tomorrow and see how it turns out. As for bleeding the air I see many different methods that I have tried but to no success, can you suggest any way to doing it?

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Re: NEED HELP FINDING A COOLANT LEAK

Postby AZhitman » Tue Aug 30, 2022 8:53 pm

Don't go too crazy. Make sure the overflow container is full, get it to operating temp, let it cool, add fluid as necessary. BTW, distilled water + WaterWetter is what you want. Leave the "coolant" on the shelf.


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