Matthew:
Congratulations!!
I've followed your travails, and pleased to see it ended happily (the
"easy" of two options that I proposed).
Not the head gasket!!
Dave
'68 1600
Kailua-Kona
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> Hi Matthew:
>
> I agree with Michael--identify where the coolant is leaking from, first,
> for sure.
>
> > Is there any way that coolant
> > could be coming out of the overflow when it shouldn't?
>
> If it IS coming from the overflow: two reasons I can think of (and have
> experienced); one easy, and the other NOT.
>
> The easy one is a faulty pressure cap on the coolant recovery tank. The
> not-easy reason is a head gasket allowing cylinder pressures to pass
> into the cooling system. Bad, bad.
>
> Good luck...
>
> Aloha,
>
> Dave
> Kailua-Kona
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