Losing water
From : hookie
Q: my 1998 dodge ram 1500 4/4 2dr. w/air keeps losing water and i dont know where it is going. only once have i seen any water on the ground. please help. .
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From : high sierra
hookie wrote my 1998 dodge ram 1500 4/4 2dr. w/air keeps losing water and i dont know where it is going. only once have i seen any water on the ground. please help. how fast is it losing coolant .
From : bill hall
my 1998 dodge ram 1500 4/4 2dr. w/air keeps losing water and i dont know where it is going. only once have i seen any water on the ground. please help. are your carpets or padding wet could be the heater core. bill .
From : redneck tookover hell
my 1998 dodge ram 1500 4/4 2dr. w/air keeps losing water and i dont know where it is going. only once have i seen any water on the ground. if its not leaking externally then its leaking internally. better fix it or the bearings will be floating on top of the oil/water/antifreeze mixture politics the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich. .
From : kirk a wolff
when you start your car does it blow out white smoke if so you probibly have a leakey head gasket or cracked head. have you checked your oil if you have a light-brown foam in your oil you probibly are leaking fluid into your oil. you can verify that you are loosing coolant into one of your cylinders by a simple compression test. if you really are loosing coolant without any leaks on the ground and you want to fix the problem you are going to need to tear apart the top of your engine. a compression test is simple since all you have to do is pull out your spark plugs and screw in a compression tester. you also need to remove your coil wire from your distributor or short out all of your plug wires if you have independent ignition coils so that your engine doesnt fire when you turn it over. you need to turn your engine over to build up pressure for the tester. ask your local mechanic to do a compression test for you or get a haynes manual for your truck for $19 and a compression test kit from harbar freight for $35 and do it yourself. if you have low compression in one of your cylinders you have a cracked head or blown head gasket. head gaskets blow out into your oil and water jacket normally due to high-revving driving 70mph in second gear or maintaining low coolant levels in your engine. this can be avoided by replacing your radiator cap every 3 or 4 years and watching your coolant resivour levels or checking that your radiator is full when your engine is turned off. if you are loosing water into your oil this is also likely due to a rotten head gasket. this happens when you dont watch your coolant level over a few years period and enough coolant evaporates to bring the coolant level below your heads. then sit in traffic for a few hours with youre a/c on and youll overheat your heads and blow your head gasket. head gasket replacements are fairly simple chore a weekend in your back yard/garage and about $120 for a head gasket kit. problems arise when your heads are cracked. overheating can sometimes crack your heads. often its hard to tell if they are cracked so you need to bring them into a head shop and have them check them over. if your headgaskets look fine then you probibly have a cracked head. cracked heads also often cause headgasket breaches since they often happen at the head gasket mating surface. sometimes your head shop can fix your crack other times its cheaper to replace the heads. in either case heads or head gaskets if your car is under warrenty save yourself the work and dont void your warrenty by doing it yourself. many times if you ask a mechanic to replace your head gaskets they wont check your heads for microscopic cracks. if youre loosing water chances are youll see a clean spot in one of your cylinders heads where theres leaking water via a crack. if your head gasket is deterioriated in an area between your water jacket and combustion area chances is you dont need to bother checking for cracks... its just your gasket. haynes and chilton manuals explain what you need and how to take your heads off and on. you cant do this job without a torque wrench its worth the $15.00 to get one and know you put your heads back on correctly. - kirk my 1998 dodge ram 1500 4/4 2dr. w/air keeps losing water and i dont know where it is going. only once have i seen any water on the ground. please help. .
From : mgg
oh and btw its spelled l o s i n g saves you an extra keystroke on your typing not when you put an extra space between each letter! --mike you can verify that you are loosing coolant into one of your cylinders by a simple compression test. a compression check isnt going to tell him anything that he wont find out when he pulls out the spark plugs. no compression test needed if you really are loosing coolant without any leaks on the ground and you want to fix the problem you are going to need to tear apart the top of your engine. and if hes leaking through the front cover of the engine which can happen on a small block mopar taking the top of the engine apart wont tell him anything oh and btw its spelled l o s i n g saves you an extra keystroke on your typing politics the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich. .
From : redneck tookover hell
you can verify that you are loosing coolant into one of your cylinders by a simple compression test. a compression check isnt going to tell him anything that he wont find out when he pulls out the spark plugs. no compression test needed if you really are loosing coolant without any leaks on the ground and you want to fix the problem you are going to need to tear apart the top of your engine. and if hes leaking through the front cover of the engine which can happen on a small block mopar taking the top of the engine apart wont tell him anything oh and btw its spelled l o s i n g saves you an extra keystroke on your typing politics the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich. .
From : kirk a wolff
redneck tookover hell mopar440@aol.comnet.org wrote in you can verify that you are loosing coolant into one of your cylinders by a simple compression test. a compression check isnt going to tell him anything that he wont find out when he pulls out the spark plugs. no compression test needed point taken. if you really are loosing coolant without any leaks on the ground and you want to fix the problem you are going to need to tear apart the top of your engine. and if hes leaking through the front cover of the engine which can happen on a small block mopar taking the top of the engine apart wont tell him anything oh and btw its spelled l o s i n g saves you an extra keystroke on your typing if hes leaking from the front cover wouldnt he see water on the ground .