Lost all my coolant
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Lost all my coolant
I have a 2wd 78 250 Ranger with a 460 and c6. It runs great, but I really dont use it much, I start it every few days just because. Heres my situation, I cleaned my motor with a steam cleaner/pressure washer, then drove it around town and stopped at a guys house and was parked for a minute and theres half a gallon of coolant on the ground. Took it back to the property where I had it, lost all my coolant on the way there, left puddles at all the stop signs lol. The freeze is coming out from under the heater-cor. It is not coming out of a crack put a little pipe about 1/2 an inch long on the bottom of the heater core. My question is did I just blow off a plug to a drain hole on the heater.. or is there something internally wrong. I am thinking it is a drain to flush the system or something and I was going to go ahead and plug it but I dont want to ruin anything, sorry to be so wordy
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Yep rockittsled is dead on, sounds like a heater core failure. Just bypass the heater core (take both lines off the heater core fittings in the eng compartment and connect them to each other) till you can get to replace the core.
Yea no heat, but no leak either. Once you top of the radiator, it should not leak out anymore.
Yea no heat, but no leak either. Once you top of the radiator, it should not leak out anymore.
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Yep rockittsled is dead on, sounds like a heater core failure. Just bypass the heater core (take both lines off the heater core fittings in the eng compartment and connect them to each other) till you can get to replace the core.
Yea no heat, but no leak either. Once you top of the radiator, it should not leak out anymore.
Yea no heat, but no leak either. Once you top of the radiator, it should not leak out anymore.
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Just be aware you will NOT have any hot air to defrost the windows, and I am sure its get cold in NM too.
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