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#1
09-29-2006, 10:06 PM
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Coolant Smell
I have a 1999 Malibu and anytime I turn the heat on you can smell coolant very badly. So strong it will make you sick. Even if I turn the Temp control just a little above complete cold it smells bad. Does anyone have any idea what this may be? Thanks for your help.
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#2
09-30-2006, 03:21 PM
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Re: Coolant Smell
Ever had the intake gasket done? Are you losing coolant? Is the oil on your dipstick milky coloured? Any dark crap floating around in the coolant recovery tank on the passenger fender?
Cheers
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#3
09-30-2006, 08:45 PM
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Re: Coolant Smell
Check heater core.When you put it on defrost does it leave a sort of oily film on the windshield?
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#4
10-10-2006, 09:29 AM
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Re: Coolant Smell
Talk about fate: just watched a neighbour try to "purge" his cooling system with bursts of air from his compressor to hurry the job up. Guess what lives in the firewall/passenger compartment and blew out?
 ...Anyway, sounds like you make have a heater core leak?
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#5
10-10-2006, 07:36 PM
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Re: Coolant Smell
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'99 Blazer LT Loaded, K&N Filter, Pioneer Super Tuner,Viper '98 Pontiac Grand Prix GT, 3.8 '88 K1500 Cheyenne, 5.0, stock, bought new '86 Nissan 720 Trash Truck '69 C/10 step side, 307, all original, second owner, in process of restore. The person who says it cannot be done should not interrurt the person doing it. Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality. Allen- Paintman Wrenchtwister Broompusher
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#6
10-11-2006, 01:44 PM
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Re: Coolant Smell
Your heater-core is shot. If you smell coolant when the heat/fan is on, then there is coolant in your air lines...
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#7
10-11-2006, 07:40 PM
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Re: Coolant Smell
Quote:
 at that last statment????
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'99 Blazer LT Loaded, K&N Filter, Pioneer Super Tuner,Viper '98 Pontiac Grand Prix GT, 3.8 '88 K1500 Cheyenne, 5.0, stock, bought new '86 Nissan 720 Trash Truck '69 C/10 step side, 307, all original, second owner, in process of restore. The person who says it cannot be done should not interrurt the person doing it. Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality. Allen- Paintman Wrenchtwister Broompusher
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