after a few weeks my coolant level will go down to the full cold line..even when the cars hot...add fluid to the top line and then in a few more weeks itll be doin the same thing again and i have to add more..there aren't ever any puddles under the car or fluid on the hoses..any suggestions? thanks i have an 87' 305ci
I have to keep adding coolant..no puddles under car
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after a few weeks my coolant level will go down to the full cold line..even when the cars hot...add fluid to the top line and then in a few more weeks itll be doin the same thing again and i have to add more..there aren't ever any puddles under the car or fluid on the hoses..any suggestions? thanks i have an 87' 305ci
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Check passenger compartment floorboard. Leaking heater core will leak inside car and not on the ground.
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Does your oil look milky?
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oil is fine, never has been milky, if it was i guess that would mean water is in with the oil? floorboard is dry....nothing on the corners of intake manilfold
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i am not following you jimm how could it go out the tailpipes? what would that tell me if the plugs are excessively clean?
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after like a week there is always black stuff on top of the tips..if that says anything...i have seen what i believe was water coming out of the tailpipes awhile ago but i started using HEET and it stopped
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A certain amount of water out the tailpipes is normal, between combustion byproducts and condensation in the exhaust system, she will drip some, particualy when cold.
A blown head gasket can allow coolant into one or more cylinders, and then out the tailpipe it would go.
Water flashing to steam in the cylinders cleans the sparkplugs, one or more would be very clean and white.
You could also do a compression test, one or more would have low compression if the head gasket was blown.
A few weeks to use a few inches of coolant is not a lot, it would run just fine most likely.
A blown head gasket can allow coolant into one or more cylinders, and then out the tailpipe it would go.
Water flashing to steam in the cylinders cleans the sparkplugs, one or more would be very clean and white.
You could also do a compression test, one or more would have low compression if the head gasket was blown.
A few weeks to use a few inches of coolant is not a lot, it would run just fine most likely.
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thanks jimm and everyone else, ill see what i can find out.
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I had a similar problem a few years ago. My coolant level was going down with no obvious leak. Turned out to be very small leaks where the hoses attached. New hoses fixed the problem. Leaks were found by using a radiator tester which attaches at the cap and pressurizes the system to force obvious leaks to be seen. For a while I thought the problem was coolant leaking internal the engine. Fortunately it was something simple.
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