Well this story begins a couple of weeks ago, when I first started leaking rad fluid (when I say weeks, I mean months). The car had a faulty rad that caused the fluid to leak out excessively and thus making it very hard to drive.
Last week I put some new coolant in the rad help until I got my new rad (thanks radiatorbarn.com you’re the best). Since then it has been leaking pink, almost “milkshake” ooze from the front of the car. Its at my work, house, friends house, street, ect.
I begin my trip to abby (25 min drive highway) but see the strange ooze dripping from the hood as I begin to fill up my tank. Overflow tank completely filled with this pink sludge and no end insight. Wait a record 20 mins to cool down , add some new green coolant to the system and make the break for abby.
Engine temp gauge shows the heat verging on boiling, but I continue to pick up majik balls at his house. Make it to my dads house, where I leave the car and borrow his to pick up my parts. This is my easy rip and re goes a bit on the fucked side.
We manage to get the rad out no problem, but the thermostat housing is completely covered by hoses and parts that make it damn near impossible to get to. Finally get my fingers in there (hehehe) and attach the mighty 10mm socket and begin to turn. Shit was hard like constipation when suddenly POP the end of the bolt comes off, leaving the reset of it stuck in the block. OH FUCK I begin to yell and wish that this didn’t happen.
Good news is that a buddy knew how to get the bolt out using a method of having two nuts (heheh)to maneuver this shit out, a 32nd of an inch at a time, which translates to over 3 hours of wiggling to get this fucker out.
Long story stort, the rad was so fucked that the tranny cooling lines were actually putting rad fluid in the tranny and tranny fluid in the rad. So the pink ooze was a combo if water, and two different types of fluid. Fluid getting purged as we speak ,but fuck what a job. Its kinda funny as I did the exact same thing a year before (almost to the day) on my firebird, which I sold to by this car. Thanks for reading and promise that these stories will get better.
