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The solution to the boil-over 700 1989

posted by  Matt Campbell on  Fri Sep 26 12:28 CST 2003
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Thanks to all the guys who gave me suggestions. The cause was very simple. When I tried to unscrew the cap on the resevoir the gasket must have gotten stuck and stretched. When I took the cap off I saw the gasket was pulled out of shape leaving a gap big enough to allow the coolant to boil out of the tank which could not vent pressure properly. All told it lost about 3/4 of a gallon of coolant which I don't think is too bad considering the capacity of the cooling system is 9 some odd liter which is about 3 gallons or so. Also, the coolant loss was occuring at idle speed. Now on to tackling that problem with the stumbling idle.

Matt Campbell






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New Coolant resevoir boiling over [700][1989]
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