Steve: It is possible your leak is a crack or at a fitting and when the pipe cools and contracts the leak stops (I had a line to the rear cabin heater core behave that way a few years ago). If so, this is an early warning … eventually it will just leak.
> On 04-Sep-2019, at 02:42, Steven Shelton <shelton4@GMAIL.COM> wrote: > > We're in Great Falls, Montana, having driven here from Georgia in my 1985 > 1.9 liter. When we came out of the Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center, > there was a steady drip of coolant from under the engine. At that rate of > dripping I think there would have been more coolant on the ground if it > leaked the whole time we were in the museum. I traced the leak to the area > around the small hose behind the thermostat housing. > > I drove into town to get a better signal to see if a vanagon shop is > nearby. After being parked for a while I checked again, and there was no > dripping. The coolant reservoir is only an inch low. Being late, we went to > the local KOA ($$$). I just checked and the dirt below the engine is wet, > but not dripping. > > I replaced that hose 7 1/2 years ago. If the hose is leaking shouldn't the > coolant leak all the time? |
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