[V8] POP..Hiss..Smoke..Antifreeze Smell..SOS!!!

Tue Aug 30 18:31:03 EDT 2005

I might add that with all the room in the between the windshield and the
firewall (NOT!), you might find it easier (read: more room) to remove the
wiper motor assembly for better access.

Ingo
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kneale Brownson" <kneale at coslink.net>
To: "Klein, Nathan P" <nathan.p.klein at lmco.com>; <v8 at audifans.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 5:01 PM
Subject: Re: [V8] POP..Hiss..Smoke..Antifreeze Smell..SOS!!!

> The heater valve and heater core box are all accessible from under the
rain
> diverter cover at the base of the windshield.  All you need to disconnect
> inside the cabin is the box from the HVAC vents plenums.  There should be
> write-ups on heater core replacement in the Audifans.com archives.  Chris
> Miller's 200q20v pages have a bunch of pix and text on heater core box
> removal and disassembly.  The box is the same on the V8, I believe.
Scroll
> down the page at  http://members.aol.com/c1j1miller/climate.html#Heater
blower
>
>
> At 03:37 PM 8/30/2005 -0500, Klein, Nathan P wrote:
> >Thanks.
> >
> >Now, how the &*%@# do I get down in there?  Looks like a long weekend
> >job.  If anyone has some "lessons learned", I'd sure appreciate them.
> >Does the dash have to come off?  If so, this may be a chance for me to
> >replace the dash lights.
> >
> >Hopefully I'll get the green light to work on it this weekend or
> >next...I paritally severed my ring finger and am waiting for it to heal
> >up.  I will probably go ahead and I/R/R everything cooling-related while
> >I'm at it.  I've checked some old posts, and apparently 98-105 degrees C
> >on the highway is considered "running hot"......
> >
> >Thanks again.  All advice is greatly appreciated.
> >
> >Nathan
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Ingo Rautenberg [mailto:i.rautenberg at waratap.com]
> >Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 3:06 PM
> >To: Klein, Nathan P; v8 at audifans.com
> >Subject: Re: [V8] POP..Hiss..Smoke..Antifreeze Smell..SOS!!!
> >
> >Hmm.  Sounds like the nightmare I recently went through.  In my case it
> >was the heater core (as pointed out by Mr. Head) began to disintegrate,
> >lodging plastic pieces into the return hose nipple of the expansion tank
> >(clogging
> >it) and leading to calcification of the radiator internals, reducing
> >radiator efficiency to nil and causing failure first of the heater valve
> >and finally the heater core.  If you're lucky, maybe it's just the
> >heater valve (but your passenger side smoke description makes that
> >unlikely).
> >
> >Good luck and let us know what you find.
> >
> >Ingo
> >
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Klein, Nathan P" <nathan.p.klein at lmco.com>
> >To: <v8 at audifans.com>
> >Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 2:26 PM
> >Subject: [V8] POP..Hiss..Smoke..Antifreeze Smell..SOS!!!
> >
> >
> >> Okay, so I'm sitting in the bank drive-through for about 10 min and
> >> notice a ton of smoke
> >> coming of the passenger side of the car all of a sudden.
> >>
> >> "Oh, crap," I thought.  This has happened before and it wasn't pretty.
> >>
> >> So I get back out on the road to look for a shady spot to pull over
> >> (it's mighty hot here today).
> >>
> >> Pull into traffic, and I hear a POP! come from under the hood, toward
> >> the passenger compartment,
> >> followed by hissing and SMOKE BELCHING out of the defrost duct, smoke
> >> blowing on to the
> >> windshield from under the hood, and smoke coming from what seemed like
> >> everywhere.
> >>
> >> The unmistakable smell of hot antifreeze was coming out of the A/C and
> >> heater ducts.
> >>
> >> Short trip.  Pull over across the street under a kind-of shaded area.
> >> Get out of the car, and there is
> >> antifreeze dripping out of the car just in front of the driver's side
> >> door, getting on to the door.
> >>
> >> My hand got wet pulling the hood lift.
> >>
> >> I pull back the cowling in front of the windshield, and it was like
> >> opening a bag of microwave popcorn
> >> too soon.
> >>
> >> I walked the six miles back to work rather than put in coolant and
> >> chance it.
> >>
> >> The car is still there, and I smell like a hobo.
> >>
> >> What in the world could this be?!
> >>
> >> HELP!!!
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