Date:         Thu, 24 Feb 2000 10:50:11 -0800
Reply-To:     Stuart MacMillan <stuart@COBALTGROUP.COM>
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From:         Stuart MacMillan <stuart@COBALTGROUP.COM>
Organization: The Cobalt Group
Subject:      Re: '87 Coolant Woes
Comments: To: Jay L Snyder <Jay.L.Snyder@USA.DUPONT.COM>
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Classic cylinder to head gasket failure symptoms.  Don't drive it much
farther without repairing, you (he) will only make things worse.

Jay L Snyder wrote:
>
> I have a friend who has an '87 Weekender that has a coolant problem.  He is
> currently seeing dramatic level changes in his overflow tank.  Coolant
> filling back into the tank (other than normal hot/cold
> expansion/contraction) to me indicates a leaking head gasket where some
> combustion gasses are forcing into the coolant system and displacing the
> antifreeze.  This would eventually overpressure the expansion tank and push
> coolant into the overflow tank.  Does this sound correct?  Are there any
> other possible explanations?  He has already put in a new radiator and the
> pressure cap was replaced.  I think he has observed some over-heating on
> longer trips and when he stops and checks the level, it is overfull.
>
>                                                              Jay

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