Anti-freeze in heating hoses

[87broncoboy]

Check your passenger seat carpet. If your heater core is leaking, it usually pools in the passenger seat footwell.

If its dripping off the fan motor, then your leak might be RIGHT AT the heater core fittings going into the cab, and then dripping down onto the fan motor.

You may need to get the engine up to full temp, then open the hood and see if its actively dripping from somewhere. At full engine temp, your coolant system will be near 15psi of pressure, and that could open up a pinhole, or force fluid past a small leak that a cold engine wouldnt.

But yeah, my money is on heater core. Easy to change.

This was helpful thanks a ton.

 

[bonedoc]

Your heater core is part of your cooling system on the truck. Heated coolant from the motor circulates through the core, which is a mini radiator, and your fan blows air through it which heats it..and subsequently...your vehicle.
Replace the core, costs about $35 bucks, probaly one of the easiest vehicles to change it on. Little tip from when I did mine. If you have a small hill or incline, park the vehicle nose down. This will cause all fluid to run toward the radiator. DO NOT open the radiator though. Then change your heater core, reconnect everything, then level vehicle and top of your cooling system. I did mine this way and lost only a few drips of coolant when I changed my heater core about 6 months ago.

 

[whocares]

I have oil in my motor and anti-freeze in the cooling system. I think my headgaskets must be sealing properly....any advice?

 

[bonedoc]

Lmao!!!!

 

[Spitfire1975]

I have oil in my motor and anti-freeze in the cooling system. I think my headgaskets must be sealing properly....any advice?

Yes.

Drain half your coolant and run the engine until it overheats and steam comes out the tailpipe. THEN throw in a bottle or three of stop leak and sell it to your neighborhood 16 year old.

 

[btm757]

Yes.

Drain half your coolant and run the engine until it overheats and steam comes out the tailpipe. THEN throw in a bottle or three of stop leak and sell it to your neighborhood 16 year old.

Hahaha

 

[whocares]

Yes.

Drain half your coolant and run the engine until it overheats and steam comes out the tailpipe. THEN throw in a bottle or three of stop leak and sell it to your neighborhood 16 year old.

I'll try it...but if my headgaskets are still sealing good after that then I'm just going to loosen headbolts until I fix it. Another issue I ran across is that there is fuel in my gas tank....could these issues be related at all???

 

[Spitfire1975]

hmmmm. Fuel is supposed to be in the crank case. How else would the engine catch when being cranked?

 

[Mac]

What, no heater in July? My back yard is cover in ice right now! Okay, small, round chunks of ice.
Dave

 

[doorgunner]

I have oil in my motor and anti-freeze in the cooling system. I think my headgaskets must be sealing properly....any advice?

whocares?

(great username!)

whocares.........who cares.....Waaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahhahaahahaaaa


uhhhhhhh ohhhhhhh....i just noticed.....87broncoboy fixed the prob. & is gone & we're still runnin wild on his thread!

 

[Spitfire1975]

And why is that an uhh ohh? 87broncoboy need not be present for us to have a little fun!

 

[whocares]

Someone left the door open to the "just plain stupied" build thread and Doorgunner has escaped. We'll never get him back in.....

 

[Spitfire1975]

Well at least he is not a pit bull.

 

[bronco_lou]

I don't want to Hijack this thread but I just noticed that I have what seems to be brake fluid in my Master Cyl, Do I need to bleed some air from my tires?
Please help.

Louis

 

[kimcrwbr1]

I was going to guess a heater core seal was leaking but those never go out.