B72011
01-11-2014, 08:58 PM
So we are up at my girl's mom's place in the mtns. I get up this am to hit the mtn for some shredding (snowboarding.) what do I find ? A puddle of coolant...small drips from the low end of the underbody shield. Her mom comes out and says, oh yeah, I forgot to tell you there was some dripping where you were parked last wknd when you guys were here....I thought it was condensation ya know?
I look at the coolant res. it's way down of course. Weird I think, is it the cold? I just did the front brakes and saw nothing on my driveway or garage floor during or after the job. So i go shredding....pulling a groin muscle getting off the lift at the end of the day....figures. So heading back home after getting picked up, I head to the store and I get some distiller water, fill er up. I check for dripping prior to driving it home...its stopped dripping...why? warmer temps? I drive it home down the Mtns an hour later.Stopping halfway I see coolant at same level, no drips. Drive the rest of the way home park it, no drips ...same level. Go out there an hour and a half later, same deal. Wtf? Why is this thing loosing coolant when cold? But no loss of coolant or dripping when warmer. I looked deep in there and saw nothing, no apparent hose leaks, no t-stat seepage or leakage. It was dark on arrival so tomorrow AM I'm gonna pull off the under shield and see what's up. My first thought was the water pump I installed when I did the timing belt 1 yr ago.....but that makes no sense that it just fails in the mtns and cold? causing intermittent leakage. Could the timing belt be shrinking due to the cold and pulling on the water pump bearing causing leakage. I just can see that. Is the cold causing a hose to pull back and shrink...causing some leakage? Again, no apparent leakage from upper, lower radiator hoses, hard lines or tstat?
Anyone ever seen or heard of such a thing? Cold weather only coolant leakage?
I look at the coolant res. it's way down of course. Weird I think, is it the cold? I just did the front brakes and saw nothing on my driveway or garage floor during or after the job. So i go shredding....pulling a groin muscle getting off the lift at the end of the day....figures. So heading back home after getting picked up, I head to the store and I get some distiller water, fill er up. I check for dripping prior to driving it home...its stopped dripping...why? warmer temps? I drive it home down the Mtns an hour later.Stopping halfway I see coolant at same level, no drips. Drive the rest of the way home park it, no drips ...same level. Go out there an hour and a half later, same deal. Wtf? Why is this thing loosing coolant when cold? But no loss of coolant or dripping when warmer. I looked deep in there and saw nothing, no apparent hose leaks, no t-stat seepage or leakage. It was dark on arrival so tomorrow AM I'm gonna pull off the under shield and see what's up. My first thought was the water pump I installed when I did the timing belt 1 yr ago.....but that makes no sense that it just fails in the mtns and cold? causing intermittent leakage. Could the timing belt be shrinking due to the cold and pulling on the water pump bearing causing leakage. I just can see that. Is the cold causing a hose to pull back and shrink...causing some leakage? Again, no apparent leakage from upper, lower radiator hoses, hard lines or tstat?
Anyone ever seen or heard of such a thing? Cold weather only coolant leakage?