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Old Jan 24, 2013 | 11:39 PM
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tiny amount of coolant loss

Every second or third drive I take the radiator light comes on when I stop at the lights, Revit and it goes. When it's cooled maybe 100-200 mls of coolant needs replacing and there's a brown snot like substance on the rad cap. Temp never goes out of control. One time I noticed the upper radiator hose was sucked in on itself after moving it across the road. Is the cap stuffed and it's dumping into the over flow or...

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Old Jan 25, 2013 | 12:15 AM
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might be the cap, clean it and the mating surface, or just replace. my T2 did this, and it turned out to be a pinhole leak. i reused a crush washer on the turbo, although pinhole leak could be anywhere.
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Old Jan 25, 2013 | 01:13 AM
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Oh yeah could be a small leak, I remember having to re tighten the too hose coz a most of coolant blew past.

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Old Jan 25, 2013 | 02:51 AM
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Top hose, mist of coolant.damn phone.

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Old Jan 27, 2013 | 04:55 PM
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I had that problem but it turned out to be a bad heater core.. ended up with soaked floors by the end of the night.
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Old Jan 28, 2013 | 10:14 AM
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When I had this problem on my 87 N/A, it was the Rad cap. Replaced the cap and the problem went away.
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