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Old Feb 21, 2014 | 05:11 PM
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89 l6 gets hot after a while driving it around town. My antifreeze is red inside the reservoir. Why would it be red? I imagine I need to flush the system soon. My heater sucks too.
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Old Feb 21, 2014 | 05:13 PM
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How dirty is it? If it's clean, but just dyed red, someone put DeathCool in it. I'd flush it and refill with old-school green.
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Old Feb 21, 2014 | 05:22 PM
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How dirty is it? If it's clean, but just dyed red, someone put DeathCool in it. I'd flush it and refill with old-school green.
It's pretty gross. I'd like to figure out why it's getting hot anyways. I think flushing the rad and the core would help a ton.
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Old Feb 21, 2014 | 05:50 PM
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Is that smoke/steam behind your cap!?
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Yea. She got a lil too warm. Had to pull over.
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It's pretty gross. I'd like to figure out why it's getting hot anyways. I think flushing the rad and the core would help a ton.
Is that blood? Are you drivin the freakin Deathmobile?
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It's going to start raining frogs pretty soon by the looks of that coolant.
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Yea it's nasty. I'll flush it before I drive it again. I have owned it for 5 years now and I've never once put anything red in it. I was just curious if it were something gnarly bad.
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Originally Posted by JamDeeper
89 l6 gets hot after a while driving it around town. My antifreeze is red inside the reservoir. Why would it be red? I imagine I need to flush the system soon. My heater sucks too.
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What does your tranny fluid look like? Could be an internal leak from the radiator/trans cooler? My puter is slow, and the pics aren't coming up for me.....RR
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Old Feb 21, 2014 | 08:52 PM
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Looks like rust to me.

That ain't good!
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Tranny is still solid. It's not chunky or anything. Just red ha. And what could be rusting?
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Automatic ? Whats tranny fluid look like ?
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Old Feb 21, 2014 | 09:10 PM
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Man. 5 speed. Last I checked about 2 weeks ago it was fine.
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Man. 5 speed. Last I checked about 2 weeks ago it was fine.
Gotta be rust manual don't run tru radiator like autos do. Thats a good sign.
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