hey i have a question for you all....

for some reason my radiator is leaking antifreeze real bad...but i dont know why...its not leaking from the hoses. so i was wondering if you all could help me out with possible reasons why?!

currently im running a b16a2-T in my da with a single raidator fan... it all works and runs great but the motor just eats antifreeze like no other...

thanx all

-chris

 

up help me out everyone...could it be a crack in the radiator??

 

Hope this helps, not sure if it will buuuut.....when I had my Jaguar, I started to loose coolant at a hellishly high rate. To the point where I would park and have a pool on the ground. All my hoses were good and all the other normal things were fine. What it ended up being was down in the bottom left hand corner of the radiator, the fins were rusted really bad. You couldn't tell from just looking from the top but when you got down underneath and/or pulled the rad out, you could tell. I'm thinking a similar situation with your radiator. One way you could tell would be to pull the rad out and run water through it and see if you see anything blatently comming out. Although if it IS like my old Jag's radiator..it won't come out until it's heated/pressurized. Just a thought though...hope it helps and good luck.

 

Well a simple solution would be to replace the radiator, if its plastic than the lower mounting dowels, there are 2, could have cracked, thus leaking fluid.

 

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cool thanx for all the good help guys...much apprciated

if anyone has anymore info that would be much appreciated...love the help...

 

Yup, if it's not the hoses or their connections, nor the drain plug seal, then it's probably radiator ROT. I've sprung a hole in mine before. Typically is caused by not changing the antifreeze enough, and/or not using distilled H2O

 

well thanx for all the good help...i ended up just replacing it...found a radiator for cheap and did work...thanx everyone