Burning Coolant on Startup (FIXED)
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Burning Coolant on Startup (FIXED)
For the past month my car has been smoking on startup and I was having no luck figuring it out. I did figure out that it was burning coolant. I started to fear the worst. The thing was, I had no coolant in the oil and no bubbling of the coolant in the radiator. I was loosing some coolant though.
I borrowed a friend's coolant pressure tester a couple of weeks ago to see if I could figure out the problem. I fount a small leak at one of the hose clamps for the lower radiator hose. That turned out to be my cause of coolant loss. Once I figured that out, I wasn't loosing any coolant pressure. I was stumped.
Yesterday I was thinking maybe I should check other possibilities. The only other thing that has coolant in it is the subzero start assist. Last night I disconnected the start assist and started the car. The car smoked like crazy but I figured it could possibly just be residual coolant in the motor. I let the car run and got the air out of the coolant. I took it for a drive to finish burning off the coolant.
This morning I started the car and it didn't smoke at all. The car is fixed. All I can figure is the sensor was shorting out causing the pump to go on every time I started the car.
I borrowed a friend's coolant pressure tester a couple of weeks ago to see if I could figure out the problem. I fount a small leak at one of the hose clamps for the lower radiator hose. That turned out to be my cause of coolant loss. Once I figured that out, I wasn't loosing any coolant pressure. I was stumped.
Yesterday I was thinking maybe I should check other possibilities. The only other thing that has coolant in it is the subzero start assist. Last night I disconnected the start assist and started the car. The car smoked like crazy but I figured it could possibly just be residual coolant in the motor. I let the car run and got the air out of the coolant. I took it for a drive to finish burning off the coolant.
This morning I started the car and it didn't smoke at all. The car is fixed. All I can figure is the sensor was shorting out causing the pump to go on every time I started the car.
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Any more info on that TSB? I don't recall seeing it, and my Sub-Zero Start Assist tank has been off the car for over 20 years. Don't need it in the desert. I blocked the vacuum lead going to it just in case, though.
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