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ZUKIWORLD Discussion Forum => Technical Discussion - Performance / Modify => Topic started by: ryanf73 on November 02, 2010, 03:14:42 PM
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94' sidekick 16v I saw that i was getting water in the oil and also that the coolant level slowly going down. So i pulled the head gasket and replaced it and the timeing belt. It ran fine but now I am loosing coolant again but it is not going into the oil and i do not think that there is all that much steam coming from the exhaust. I do not have any leaks under the hood and my coolant resevor never goes down i have to refill it into the radiator. It takes about a quart of coolant for every 200 miles.
ANY SUGESTIONS?????
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my sami does that and I found that I need to replace the o-ring in the drain plug. check the drain plug in the radiator and see if thats the problem.
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That or the cap cold be bad
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Heater core leaking??
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I will check, but the strange thing is that i does not leak anything onto the ground????
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ALSO what is the going shop rate to have this motor rebuilt top to bottom?
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Replace the cap on your radiator first. I have seen a bad radiator cap now allow coolant back into the engine as it cools down, and it's usually the last thing checked.
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One of the best ways to check for a leak is just to pressure test the system. If you come up clean in all areas previously suggested, you may have a cracked block. It just seems odd that you would be losing coolant in the radiator alone...
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I changed the cap and now it seems to be pulling from the resivor tank i also dumped entire bottle of stop leak in it and that seems to be slowing it down but still using coolant, i think that some of it is going into the oil and some of it is going out of the exhaust do you think it is a cracked head??? It does not get hot and it runs fine... It just get thursty every 200 miles..
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Head gasket!!
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Do you have any dirty creamy stuff on the oil fill cap?
That's one sign of a bad head gasket, but could be
also from water condensation in cool weather
Wild
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I already changed the head gasket. didn't make much difference and i coould not tell where the old gasket was leaking that is why i think that the head is cracked. I am getting white cream in oil from coolant.(not a whole lot)