It seems i have to add a little water to the radiator every couple of days. I have checked and there are no leaks. Checked the oil for water or bubbles and found nothing contaminated. What could be evaporating the water ?
If you are adding coolant/water every week and there are no external leaks, you are probably burning the coolant thru the engine.
You can burn a large amount and not see any smoke from the exhaust pipe. Possible head gasket or cracked head.
Testimonial: "Thanks. I will surely check that....But wouldn't there be water or even bubbles in the oil if the gasket was bad or had a crack in the head ?"
Not yet. Depending on where the leak is, coolant can leak into the cylinders or intake manifold and be burned in the cylinders without oil or compression leaking into the cooling system. Under normal conditions, the cooling system is under about 12-15 lbs of pressure which is enough to push coolant into the cylinders. There is very little pressure in the crankcase to push oil into the coolant.
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SOURCE: oil leak after radiator change
The radiator has a transmission and engine oil cooler lines to it too. One of the oil lines are leaking, if you know which one that's have the battle. I believe the transmission line is on the passenger sides and the oil cooler line is on the drivers side. Look at where the lines connect to the radiator and see if there is signs of the leak. You may need to spray it down with brake cleaner if you not sure if it's a new leak or old leak from the accident. Good luck and hope this helps. And what do you mean by rear case gasket?? You mean the gasket that connects the transmission to the transfer case, or the rear O ring yoke gasket.
SOURCE: 2003 Neon SXT Tranny Oil In Radiator
I'm not possitive but there is usually a vent tube on top of the transmission, may be possible that dirt or something is clogging it up. That would cause the tranny to build up pressure. But to blow the seal on a new radiator, I wouldn't imagine that. My opinion would be that the new radiator wasn't put together correctly. But just in case the vent tube did cause it to let go, check the vent. I hope that you find the problem. Best wishes.
SOURCE: 2004 Dodge Stratus 2.4L Overheating
Thermostat if water is Running. Cheapest Fix to start with!
SOURCE: small bubbles in radiator and luid loss not in oil
bubbles in radiator often indicates compression leaking into cooling system via the head gaskets. chances are with no leaks present it may be getting burned up and semt out exhaust. Suggest finding a shop with emissions testing equipment and having the sniff the open radiator while engine is running. Presence of exhaust gases will confirm head gasket leakage
SOURCE: Accidentally added antifreeze to oil instead of
since it was such a small amount of anti freeze and water,anti freeze has a petrolem base and water would have sunk to the bottom of oil pan, change oil and filter and you should be ok
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