91stranger
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- Gets Mo Chicks
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- 4.2 straight six powered by gremlins, goblins and mudbloods.
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So I noticed a coolant smell and sure enough there's coolant all over my engine bay on the passenger side and underneath but it is bone dry near the radiator cap. I couldn't find where it was leaking at first and I noticed my radiator was about half full and my overflow tank was still at the full mark where it always is. Also noticed coolant bubbling in the reservoir when I shut the truck off. I started thinking head gasket but I didn't have any of the other symptoms like milky oil or white smoke from the exhaust. I just changed my oil literally last weekend so my oil was still a nice clean oil color. So I finally was able to get it home and watch the engine run to see where the coolant was leaking and found it was spraying out from the engine temp sensor block that screws into the block. I can't tell if it had a crack in the fitting or if the hose was cracked and leaking. So I need to go to the junkyard and pull a full hose assembly and the fitting off a donor vehicle to see if this will fix my issue. I really hope its not something more serious but this was the only thing I could find leaking. Here is a pic showing the leak.
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