update on cockpit suddenly filled with steam

[Cody Forbes]

Where's the fresh air intake for the HVAC? It MIGHT be picking up engine bay steam, but I highly doubt that and think Huw is right.

-Cody Forbes

On Aug 16, 2012, at 10:20 PM, Huw Powell <audi at humanspeakers.com> wrote:

> No, your heater core is also shot.  The fresh air inlet is isolated from the engine compartment (or should be), so that steam can only come from one place - the heater core.
> 
> Obviously, yes, you also have other cooling system issues that need to be rectified.
> 
> On 8/16/2012 9:18 PM, Bill Pirkle wrote:
>> Filled the reservoir with coolant and started to car (85 audi 5000)
>> 
>> When the temp needle was  about vertical (about 3 minutes) steam began
>> to come out of the heater vents.
>> 
>> Shut off the engine and noticed that coolant was leaking on the drive
>> way. Dripping pretty bad. It empted to reservoir in about 10 minutes
>> even with the engine not running.
>> 
>> Dripping was just  behind the steering but the radiator and reservoir is
>> toward to front but drops can run all over the engine before they
>> finally hit the driveway.
>> 
>> So I think that there is a major leak in the cooling system that is a
>> completely different problem than the leak in the heater core. This
>> major leak causes the engine to overheat which produces the steam that
>> comes out of the vents in the cockpit.
>> 
>> Now to find it.
>> 
>> 
>> Bill Pirkle   KE7JIA
>> "When ideas fail, words come in handy"
>> 
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