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Originally Posted by ike84
As luck would have it, I took my car out today for the first hard runs of the season. Wifey went with me and then we stopped for coffee afterward. Pulled into the lot and there was coolant dumping everywhere. Popped the trunk and there's coolant all around the cap. Floor is bone dry though.
I'm starting to think that replacing the cap should be a yearly preventive maintenance on these cars.
Unless I've just destroyed my water pump and got extremely lucky... I'll find out when the new cap gets here!
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I think the cap was the beginning of my problems, that was ignored, and then things went downhill from there. See what the cap does and make sure you refill and get the air out. Something I saw someone do as a temporary fix was put nylon tape on the tank threads to seal the cap better.
I got it back on the road today, runs as good as ever, so far so good. Runs much cooler than before with the low tstat, and I believe I have most of the air purged out of the system. In the old coolant I would see some occasional bits floating in the tank but it’s much cleaner now. May your luck be better than mine, but don’t worry, water pump and thermostat isn’t anything to be afraid of if it comes down to it.