Re: Keeping them out

[Michael Spiers <mikes@specnet.com>]

> BTW, what does the very faint odor of coolant mean in the cabin of a 1990
> 200 mean?
>
> Or should I say, how much is the fix for the above mentioned odor?
>
> Do I have a heater box preparing to let go, dumping coolant on the wife's
> legs? Or will it be a benign event?

Means your heater core is shot.  It _shouldn't_ "dump" coolant.  When the one
in my '84 5kS died, it went from a strange aroma in the cabin to a wisp of
smoke rolling across the dashboard.  Took about a month, but finally got bad
enough that you had to drive around with the windows down (this is a bad thing
in February.)  I did the rip-the -whole-f#$%ing-dash-apart routine to fix mine,
you should follow the recent posts on easier possibilities though...

-- 
-Mike
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87 5000CS TQ
84 5000S (2,000 miles away and a mile high)
90 80 (sibling's mode of transportation I get lynched into working on)