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I'm leaking water!

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Subject: I'm leaking water!
From: Matthew W Peterson <pete-3@juno.com>
Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 18:38:04 -0500
Hi everyone,

I hope everyone had as nice of weather as we had in Minnesota this past
weekend.  In the 80's and sunny all weekend accept for today which is
cloudy and somewhere in the 60's.  It's amazing how the weather changes
so quickly.  

Well, I was driving my roadster around this weekend (naturally) and I
noticed my temp guage was higher than normal when off the highway but
would go back down once I got back on.  On my arival at home I noticed a
trail of liquid that was driping from my car.  Once it cooled down, I
checked the coolant.  I ended up adding about 1.5 gallons of water to it!
 I drove it around the next day and the same thing happened and I had to
add another gallon of water.  I think it's coming out of the overflow on
the resivour.  I noticed coolant dripping from it a few times last week
after I would park it.  I drove it today and nothing happened that I
could tell.  I didn't see any coolant dripping from my car when I got
home.  Then again it is alot cooler today.  Is there any way that coolant
could be coming out of the overflow when it shouldn't?  That's the only
thing that I can think of.  I have never had any problems like this
before.  The car ran fine all last summer with no overheating or water
leaking problems.  Any ideas of what could be causing this?  For now I'm
going to keep a close eye on my coolant level.

Thanks for any thoughts,

Matt Peterson
'68 1600
Zimmerman, Mn 


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