[s-cars] anti-freeze consumption

[chris chambers]

Also check your "overflow" tank at the nipple where the hose attachs.
The internal brass tube started to seperate from the tank on mine and
eventually broke off.

It seems to be a known failure.


HTH
Chris


--- Rich Assarabowski <konecc at snet.net> wrote:

> First thing is to check your pressure cap, if it's not holding
> pressure,
> your boiling point will be lower and water will be turning to steam
> and
> disappearing.  One giveaway is if you hear a bubbling sound (boiling)
> when
> your engine is off (engine hot).  Advance Auto Parts has pressure
> testers
> you can borrow.  If in doubt, install a new pressure cap (they're
> cheap).
> 
> -- Rich A
>    '92 & '93 S4
> 
> >my '93 s4 seems to be drinking the pretty pink anti-freeze.  it's
> not
> leaking anywhere that I can see, and it's not 
> >consuming a lot a once, but about every one to two months I have to
> fill up
> the reservoir because it's below the sensor.  >any suggestions as to
> where
> to look first?
> 
> 
> 
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