RADIATOR IS LEAKING!!!!

[SHO SPD]

Ok, when I am just letting the car sit while running some Antifreeze seems to be leaking from the radiator, I cannot pin point the exact problem, it is inside the fan cover just above the Radiator drain plug, not too much leaks but enough to see it. Is there another plug that could be loose up inside there??

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1/[email protected] MPH

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[This message has been edited by SHO SPD (edited 11-19-2001).]

 

[Blast7]

It is really difficult to find a spot on the radiator that is leaking without actually taking it out. I had a leak in my radiator and it looked as though it were coming from teh part where the plastic meets the metal core, but when I took it out the plastic part of the radiator had a crack in it. A new radiator cost me $150 from Autozone.

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[sdpatt]

If yours is the stock radiator with the drain petcock on the driver side end tank, you probably have either a leaking end tank to tube section seal or a cracked end tank. The seal between the composite end tank and the aluminum tube section can definitely produce a leak. I have had the end tank crack near the upper fan shroud bolt on the driver side, causing a leak that only replacement of the end tank or the whole radiator would stop. I choose to replace the radiator after its 150,000 mile lifetime.


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Scott

1991, 252K miles, glass hood, police grill, SVO shifter, Catz fogs,
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Class II hitch, Silver award at the SHOklahoma Car Show

[This message has been edited by sdpatt (edited 11-19-2001).]

 

[BeatDaSHO]

yo man. I just had the same problem. It didn't seem like a lot of antifreeze was leaking out. I kept finding little antifreeze puddles under my car and i could see it was leaking from somewhere on the drivers side. I took out the fan and i started it up and a whole crap load of antifreeze just started pouring out. I took out the radiator and had it patched. cost me 75 bucks. good luck boss. Later

Greg

 

[RStalveyARFF]

I have a leak in the same exact location. Replacement radiators are going for 89 bucks on ebay all the time, I think it's more of an annoyance of topping off the resevoir and seeing puddles if anything.

 

[Tommy the Greek]

The other day I replaced my radiator as well because it was leaking the same way yours was, right where the aluminum ends. It was doing this actually for a while until I saw it actually driping on the ground. I wanted to put a factory unit in but because of time and money I put an aftermarket radiator.
P/N: ACF2372 List- $319, Cost- $110

Then refilled her up with Toyota "red" antifreeze P/N 00272-1LLAC-01.

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[SHO SPD]

Ok, I will probably just go with a new radiator, thanks guys..

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1989 Titanium pearl
CAI- Thanks to justinrsho
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G-tech times
0-60....6.61 sec.
1/[email protected] MPH

"Dont tell me, SHO me!"

 

[gregr]

Same problem here. I noticed it yesterday after replacing the Oil pan gaskets. Driver's side is leaking somewhere. Not a lot, but a little at a time.



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Greg Raciti
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[JimN696]

I can't find a leak in mine, but I smell coolant once in a while when the engine is hot. I am thinking it is a small radiator leak because I haven't had to add coolant in about 2K miles.

 

[RStalveyARFF]

if you smell coolant when the engine is hot, then you either have a leak onto the cats, the water pump is leaking, or your upper radiator hose or crossover tube has a leak.

 

[SLOSHO89]

If you need a temp. fix, buy a can of leak stopper from the auto parts store. I've used it before and it seemed to work fine.

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