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94' sidekick loosing coolant?

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Offline ryanf73

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94' sidekick loosing coolant?
« on: November 02, 2010, 03:14:42 PM »
94' sidekick 16v I saw that i was getting water in the oil and also that the coolant level slowly going down. So i pulled the head gasket and replaced it and the timeing belt.  It ran fine but now I am loosing coolant again but it is not going into the oil and i do not think that there is all that much steam coming from the exhaust. I do not have any leaks under the hood and my coolant resevor never goes down i have to refill it into the radiator. It takes about a quart of coolant for every 200 miles.
ANY SUGESTIONS?????

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Offline airmanwilliams

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Re: 94' sidekick loosing coolant?
« Reply #1 on: November 02, 2010, 04:35:35 PM »
my sami does that and I found that I need to replace the o-ring in the drain plug. check the drain plug in the radiator and see if thats the problem.
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Re: 94' sidekick loosing coolant?
« Reply #2 on: November 02, 2010, 07:06:33 PM »
That or the cap cold be bad
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Offline jeff1997

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Re: 94' sidekick loosing coolant?
« Reply #3 on: November 02, 2010, 07:42:44 PM »
Heater core leaking??
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Offline ryanf73

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Re: 94' sidekick loosing coolant?
« Reply #4 on: November 03, 2010, 08:04:10 AM »
I will check, but the strange thing is that i does not leak anything onto the ground????

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Offline ryanf73

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Re: 94' sidekick loosing coolant?
« Reply #5 on: November 03, 2010, 08:06:44 AM »
ALSO what is the going shop rate to have this motor rebuilt top to bottom?

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Re: 94' sidekick loosing coolant?
« Reply #6 on: November 04, 2010, 11:44:45 AM »
Replace the cap on your radiator first.  I have seen a bad radiator cap now allow coolant back into the engine as it cools down, and it's usually the last thing checked. 
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Re: 94' sidekick loosing coolant?
« Reply #7 on: November 16, 2010, 08:16:00 PM »
One of the best ways to check for a leak is just to pressure test the system.  If you come up clean in all areas previously suggested, you may have a cracked block.  It just seems odd that you would be losing coolant in the radiator alone...

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Offline ryanf73

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Re: 94' sidekick loosing coolant?
« Reply #8 on: November 17, 2010, 10:42:26 AM »
I changed the cap and now it seems to be pulling from the resivor tank i also dumped entire bottle of stop leak in it and that seems to be slowing it down but still using coolant, i think that some of it is going into the oil and some of it is going out of the exhaust  do you think it is a cracked head???  It does not get hot and it runs fine... It just get thursty every 200 miles..

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Offline jeff1997

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Re: 94' sidekick loosing coolant?
« Reply #9 on: November 17, 2010, 03:55:53 PM »
Head gasket!!
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Re: 94' sidekick loosing coolant?
« Reply #10 on: November 17, 2010, 10:47:34 PM »
Do you have any dirty creamy stuff on the oil fill cap?
That's one sign of a bad head gasket, but could be
also from water condensation in cool weather

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Offline ryanf73

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Re: 94' sidekick loosing coolant?
« Reply #11 on: November 23, 2010, 12:02:56 PM »
I already changed the head gasket. didn't make much difference and i coould not tell where the old gasket was leaking that is why i think that the head is cracked. I am getting white cream in oil from coolant.(not a whole lot)