Losing coolant
DM_Rok
03-17-2007, 11:26 PM
I have a 91 /22re/ 2wd / MT : approx. 6000 miles since I rebuilt the engine last year.
I am losing coolant into the engine somewhere. No mixing of oil and coolant anywhere. On a hot restart, the engine misfires for the first 10 seconds or so and blows a cloud of white smoke out the tailpipe. After shutting the engine down when it is hot, I can hear steam escaping somewhere in the general area of the intake manifold, and when I remove the intake pipe and look into the throttle bore, the intake chamber is full of steam. I thought it was the Aux. Air Valve leaking coolant into the intake, so I bypassed and blocked it off, but the problem still exists. Any ideas on the source of this leak?
I am losing coolant into the engine somewhere. No mixing of oil and coolant anywhere. On a hot restart, the engine misfires for the first 10 seconds or so and blows a cloud of white smoke out the tailpipe. After shutting the engine down when it is hot, I can hear steam escaping somewhere in the general area of the intake manifold, and when I remove the intake pipe and look into the throttle bore, the intake chamber is full of steam. I thought it was the Aux. Air Valve leaking coolant into the intake, so I bypassed and blocked it off, but the problem still exists. Any ideas on the source of this leak?
KimMG
03-18-2007, 02:20 AM
Possible blown head gasket. Have you done a compression test?
jake jake
03-18-2007, 10:06 AM
1. check head gasket
2. sometimes the coolant could be faling on a hot engine part and evaporating and that is why its hard to spot where its leaking
3. maybe try Bars stop leak --it might seal the leak
2. sometimes the coolant could be faling on a hot engine part and evaporating and that is why its hard to spot where its leaking
3. maybe try Bars stop leak --it might seal the leak
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