At 06:49 PM 3/30/98 -0500, Donald Baxter wrote: >I have an '85 with a factory remanufactured engine installed in January >1996. I decided to just do the whole thing and not bother with replacing >head gaskets. I have about 34,000 miles on the new engine now. It runs >beautifully, gets close to 20 MPG in the city and so far no complaints. I >don't seem to be losing coolant but I do notice that the level in the >refill tank (that's the one visible through the license plate door) changes >about an inch between the cold engine and the warm engine (the warm engine >being the higher level, of course). > No problem, this is how the system is designed to operate. Another name for this tank is the "expansion tank," because it's there for coolant to expand into when it gets hot. -Mark McCulley |
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