Losing coolant - Page 3

zzyzzx · 04-22-2010, 10:01 PM

Just got the front valve cover off. Now it's really obvious that my oil looks like peanut butter. Viscosity seems OK, but the color is way off. The oil is as if someone mixed some orange color in it.

zzyzzx · 04-22-2010, 10:22 PM

Are you sure I won't need crow's feet to get to those diagonal LIM bolts? That one near the fuel rail looks like it might need it.

zzyzzx · 04-24-2010, 03:57 PM

OK, I got the LIM off. I will definately need some crow's feet. I don't see any other way possible to get two of the diagonal LIM bolts torqued properly without it.

Also, the LIM gasket in there looks perfectly fine. I believe that all my leakage problems were due to improperly torqued diagonal LIM bolts, since that's where it was leaking from. They were not finger loose as I have heard mentioned elsewhere though.

zzyzzx · 05-05-2010, 08:38 AM

I finally got the car back together last night. It started right up, and I ran it (in a garage) long enough to warm it up. It runs fine, as per it's usual. I did not drive it though. I see no sign of any leaks. Only strange thing is that I'm reasonably sure that I removed more coolant than I put back in. I saved the old coolant in used 2 liter soda bottles, so I know exactly how much I took out (and I do that to take the stuff for disposal as well, it's the only bottles I trust in the car like that not to spill).

I tried opening the bleeding screw while running and all I got was more coolant coming out of that. I assume that my recervior will empty out a couple of times while driving and that will be it or should I research how to properly bleed out the air, assuming that there is some. should be 1-2 liters worth.