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Old 11-12-2012, 01:21 PM
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How much coolant lowers with temp drop...

So I've been watching my coolant level for a while...

It dropped to about -10 now, and the coolant is about a pinky finger below the cold fill, and it was at the cold line before.

Does that sound normal, or did something start weeping with the cold temps?
 
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Old 11-12-2012, 01:39 PM
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I lost about that much. Has been steady ever since.
 
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Mine hasn't dropped yet. Oh, but wait, we are only a 67* today WOW! -10*..Dang that is cold!
 
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Mine hasn't dropped yet. Oh, but wait, we are only a 67* today WOW! -10*..Dang that is cold!

-10 is thin jacket weather.
-40 is getting there...

When I worked in FT mcmurray AB one year, it was even colder.
A bottle of vodka froze solid.

Guys that work up there often said it gets even colder, and trees start to explode.
 
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I was down a hair as well once we started averaging below 80 degrees everyday. Now we're 50-70, topped off the coolant, and its holding.
 
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