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Okay so I have driven my rex around the past two days and almost everytime after driving it for a while then stopping at the store or friends house or w/e the very front of my car smokes. It smells like coolant but i cant find a leak anywhere. any suggestions?
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What year is your car?
Possible leak would be from the coolant O rings in the intake manifold dripping onto your exhaust. Look under the manifold for residue marks.
Does it smell sweet to you? That would be coolant. If it leaks from the manifold when it is off, it will also be getting sucked into the engine when you are driving.
Possible leak would be from the coolant O rings in the intake manifold dripping onto your exhaust. Look under the manifold for residue marks.
Does it smell sweet to you? That would be coolant. If it leaks from the manifold when it is off, it will also be getting sucked into the engine when you are driving.
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are you sure it's coolant? when my water pump had a small crack in it it wouldn't steam at all, and it was a constant flow of coolant. on the other hand when one of my omp lines broke it would smoke all the time until i realized that it broke lol. took about a day to find this cuz my engine was so dirty. the bottom of the rubber in one of the hoses had rotted off. thank god it didn't do major damage.
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i fill the overflow reservoir tank up and it seems to drain almost all the way so i know its coolant unless its supposed to do that two is there is smoke coming from under the exhaust manifold cowl. someone said there is a vaccum or coolant line that runs near there or it could even be the o rings------------------if it is the o rings how would i go about replacing them??
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or by removing the intake manifold/carb and throwing some new ones of freeze plugs instead
And im pretty sure there is nothing coolant related UNDER the exhaust manifold. sooo id say its ur intake manifold o-rings
or by removing the intake manifold/carb and throwing some new ones of freeze plugs instead
And im pretty sure there is nothing coolant related UNDER the exhaust manifold. sooo id say its ur intake manifold o-rings
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^^sorry to jack the thread, but when i replaced my gasket i saw those, now why does it need to run coolant through the manifold? just for cooling, or does it have some other special job? i thought about just plugging them but i didn't know if it would hurt anything.
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^^sorry to jack the thread, but when i replaced my gasket i saw those, now why does it need to run coolant through the manifold? just for cooling, or does it have some other special job? i thought about just plugging them but i didn't know if it would hurt anything.
On a side thing, I have wondered if the additives in the coolant have caused the O-Rings to expand into mini-donuts. The last 6 I have seen were xpanded and split, rather then dry cracked from cooking.
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