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Coolant Leak

JamesBorisPerez
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Developed a coolant leak, not the coolant cap or reservoir, leak is coming from seems like thermostate housing? Anyone have this type of leak? Any help would be appriciated. I bought the Bentley manual and am familiar with mechanical teckniques.

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James, most likely either the hose is dried out and failing or the metal gasket is weeping. Either way it's a straight away easy DIY. Just make sure you have a good set of hose clamps to seal off the t-stat hose from draining the rest of the system once you pull it off. Also collect any of the coolant that you drain from the block plug and the block once the t-stat comes off. There will be quite a bit of coolant from the block be prepared for that. Then replace the leaking hose or t-stat with gasket and bolt it all back on. Make sure you are familiar with the procedure to 'burp' the coolant system so that you get out all of the air bubbles then top off the tank in the trunk and you should be ok.

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