Coolant Seal issues? watch the Video
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Coolant Seal issues? watch the Video
http://www.davidgeesaman.com/rx7/coolant.AVI
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A few questions. The video above is my car. I believe I have a bad coolant seal. But lately I've been reading some posts about "White smoke" caused by leaking injectors or bad oil pan circulation.
What do you guys think? The video above is when it's first started when cold. It does this every time, Day or Night! After about 5 minutes or so it's fine. It will back fire then smoke like you would'nt believe on deceleration after a hard pull.
Also, the smoke does'nt smell "sweet" like some say when burning coolant. More like concentrated gas fumes! The engine consumes more oil than normal too.
The compression is good on all sides.
So, have any of you guys experienced something this bad before? and is it possible that it's not a coolant seal but maybe a clogged or stuck injector or oil pan ventilation?
Thanks, Dan
and yes it's single.
Thanks Dave for hosting this!
A few questions. The video above is my car. I believe I have a bad coolant seal. But lately I've been reading some posts about "White smoke" caused by leaking injectors or bad oil pan circulation.
What do you guys think? The video above is when it's first started when cold. It does this every time, Day or Night! After about 5 minutes or so it's fine. It will back fire then smoke like you would'nt believe on deceleration after a hard pull.
Also, the smoke does'nt smell "sweet" like some say when burning coolant. More like concentrated gas fumes! The engine consumes more oil than normal too.
The compression is good on all sides.
So, have any of you guys experienced something this bad before? and is it possible that it's not a coolant seal but maybe a clogged or stuck injector or oil pan ventilation?
Thanks, Dan
and yes it's single.
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It’s a blown coolant seal. Looks nearly identical when mine went, only mine had more of the old DDT sprayer style smoke. That amount of white smoke wouldn’t be caused by oil. Is it consuming coolant? Like if b4 you fire it up in the morning shees not all the way topped off? Has your low coolant buzzer gone off randomly?
It looks mild enough that you might be able to get away with the block weld fix, but that’s just a band aid, start saving for a re-build
btw right click save as to view the vid, it dosent want to stream for some reason
It looks mild enough that you might be able to get away with the block weld fix, but that’s just a band aid, start saving for a re-build
btw right click save as to view the vid, it dosent want to stream for some reason
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try downloading this to see the video.
Yes it seems that the coolant is not topped off in the mornings. But I also lfushed out the cooling system and figuered it would take a few times of topping it of to get the air out. The coolant buzzer would go off all the time in the past. But ever since I installed a single turbo, it has never done it.
Thanks for your help guys.
try downloading this to see the video.
Yes it seems that the coolant is not topped off in the mornings. But I also lfushed out the cooling system and figuered it would take a few times of topping it of to get the air out. The coolant buzzer would go off all the time in the past. But ever since I installed a single turbo, it has never done it.
Thanks for your help guys.
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