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YOUR RESEARCHGreat my car is leaking coolant.
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Use spring clamps
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Leave it to the German engineers to use spring clamps.
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I noticed driving home last night that my coolant was overheating but my car wasn't. So I got home and put some water in and everything was fine. Drove to work no issues but when I came out for lunch I saw a trail of coolant all over the ground. It's leaking out of the bottom left hose clamp area.
Can I just get a new clamp? This could get expensive.
EXTREMELY unlikely it is the pump. There is a known issue with the tank/cap as well as the lower hoses. Sometimes, just the clamp is bad and replacing it will stop the leak. I apply shellac to the inside of the hose before clamping it.
Once again 1999 you are right on the money. I'm not even taking that hose off. It'll probably break. How do they think those hoses are going to last right next to the headers. I need some ceramic coated headers to reduce the heat. Anyone sell those or heard anything about ceramic coated. I might get some ZTeks and ceramic coat 'em. They owe me some cheap headers.
are you sure it isn't just the cap from the expantion tank?? I had this happen to me about 3 weeks ago! Coolant just sprayed out from under the cap and ran out from under my P......looked like a big disaster..but the cap is only about 18 bucks!
The spring type clamps will leak. I found 2 leaking on my car. I replaced them with screw type clamps over a year ago and haven't had any more drips. The shop where I take my car indicated there is a TSB for the clamps (don't know the number). My cooling system gets a serious workout in the metro traffic on 100 plus degree days in the summer.
