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my coolant is all brown, and the overflow reservoir is full beyond the hot point even when the engine is cool. will just flushing and refilling fix this?
It could be really dirty, when it the last time you flushed the system??? How does your oil look, if it look like chocolate milk
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A rcent sudty funod taht it deosnt meattr waht odrer the lerttes of a wrod are in, the olny imopraotnt tihng is taht the fsirt and lsat lerttes are in corrcet poistiosn. Unfaertontely, tahts not the csae for evryhtieng in lfie………………
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the oil is good, i think the coolant is just discolored from rust somewhere along the line. and i just bought the car in april. it's only been driven a couple times and i haven't had a chance to flush it yet. i've been doing other work on the car.
Just flush the system; chances are that iron oxide has combined with your coolant somewhere along the line and thus the discoloration.
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A rcent sudty funod taht it deosnt meattr waht odrer the lerttes of a wrod are in, the olny imopraotnt tihng is taht the fsirt and lsat lerttes are in corrcet poistiosn. Unfaertontely, tahts not the csae for evryhtieng in lfie………………
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day, teach a man to fish, and he will sit on a boat drinking beer for a life time
iron oxide huh? have you been reading my coolant post?
Ummmmmmmmmmm No Cale, I am educated and have taken Chem in College
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A rcent sudty funod taht it deosnt meattr waht odrer the lerttes of a wrod are in, the olny imopraotnt tihng is taht the fsirt and lsat lerttes are in corrcet poistiosn. Unfaertontely, tahts not the csae for evryhtieng in lfie………………
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day, teach a man to fish, and he will sit on a boat drinking beer for a life time
You know I taught you everything you know! Stop trying to hide it! How can you say things like that! I even taught you how to drive manual in my car!
I must confess my mentor, you are correct
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A rcent sudty funod taht it deosnt meattr waht odrer the lerttes of a wrod are in, the olny imopraotnt tihng is taht the fsirt and lsat lerttes are in corrcet poistiosn. Unfaertontely, tahts not the csae for evryhtieng in lfie………………
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day, teach a man to fish, and he will sit on a boat drinking beer for a life time
Don't won't to scare you dude, but I had the same problem a few months back. Here's what had to be fixed and changed after finding my coolent turned brown.
1. water pump went out - that was the easy part. While changing the thermostat, both bolts broke off due to the rust. Had to tap and drill them out. Took 5 hours.
2. a few months after that the radiator went. Had to buy a new one.
3. Still to this day cannot get the knock sensor out. It won't budge even with the help of a pipe wrench.
Hope you caught it in time. My coolant was green that winter and like in two months it went to crap.
