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Cooling loss on my hemi

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Old Apr 11, 2016 | 01:07 AM
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Since several days, i check my level of cooling. It seems that there is a leak but i dont find where.

I have no oil on cooling and my engine seems to run properly.

I have seen some little water on the coil filler cap.

Can it be my gasket motor?
 
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Old Apr 11, 2016 | 01:28 PM
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If you have access to a coolant pressure tester I would start there. If that yields nothing. Do a compression check.
 
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Old Apr 12, 2016 | 01:17 AM
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Yes good idea, tomorrow i will go to the garage to make it. I will post the result.

Hoat cooling is not very easy to find in Belgium. Even if i have a small leak on gasket, the engine will not smoke white. Waiting the pressure test. Cu
 
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Old Apr 14, 2016 | 02:38 AM
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Calm down its most likely the water pump gasket that likes to seep on these. My parents Hemi Durango did it until I changed the water pump AND gasket and added copper permatex to help it seal long term. These rubber o-ring style gaskets are overrated in my eyes, because they squish over time & fail to seal, same with the intake gaskets. All my parents Durango needed was just a new gasket, but I replaced the pump because I already had a new one bought at the time I removed the old one. I could tell quite obviously where it was corroded & seeping once the pump was off. My 04 Hemi Ram currently does it and I can only see a dry residue by the side of the water pump, but it dries fast because of the engine fan and probably only seeps during certain conditions.

It sounds weird for that to happen and for traces of the amount that goes missing to not be noticed but it most certainly was cured after gasket replacement ;-)


Mine leaks at the rate of a quart a month. Eventually I'll get around to changing it.
 

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Old Apr 14, 2016 | 04:14 AM
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Originally Posted by JoshSlash87


Mine leaks at the rate of a quart a month. Eventually I'll get around to changing it.


same...
 
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