its been about a week ago that ive been smelling the coolant. my rig is a 98' XJ with 113,000 miles or so. when i turn my defroster on i smell a strong hint of coolant. now i dont know if im leaking yet, ill have to check up on that. but what am i looking at in terms of possible suspects. i would hate to find out i need a new heater core. any ideas would be great. thanks....

 

most likely the heater core

 

sounds like the heater core.........mine is a 97 with 160k miles and i smell it only for a brief moment then goes away.

 

mine did that, then one day it started leaking bad and steamed up the whole inside and its really hard to clean all of it off afterwards so fix it soon or just bypass it

 

how hard is it to get to the heater core on these jeeps....? im sure its behind the freakin dash and would take years to get to it......

 

its behind the dash, its not as hard as a lot of people make it seem i had mine out and back together in about 5 hours but that was with air tools but with hand tools i estimate it taking 7 hours

 

i have every air tool known to man haha. 5 hours huh.....how much for a new core?

 

i paid $60 at carquest, but i get discount through the dealership i work at, and i priced a factory one for about $120

 

that is excatley what mine is doing. smell for a minute or so then goes away. well im going to have to investagate more. thanks guys..