Re: question? coolant expansion tank's sensor-area leaking coolant??

[Ian Overholt <ioverholt@hotmail.com>]

It sounds like the sensor is broken.  This happened to me.  I pulled the 
plug off of the sensor so I could unscrew it and the sensor came off with 
the plug leaving the threaded part of the sensor still in the expansion 
tank.  The sensor had cracked and coolant was leaking out of the crack.  It 
sounds like you have the same problem.  $10 for a new sensor, and no more 
coolant leak!  :)

Ian Overholt
'88 16v


----Original Message Follows----
From: David Liu <dyliu@pacbell.net>
To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
Subject: question? coolant expansion tank's sensor-area leaking  coolant??
Date: Mon, 05 Jul 1999 15:59:09 -0700


hey all
hope you all had a good 4th. as i went out the car today  noticed a small
dried puddle of what looked to me like coolant underneath the driver's side
front wheel. i popped the hood, took a look and nothing.. so i figured i
coincidently parked my wheel over someone else's mess. well, on the way
back i stopped the car and decided to take another look. sure enough, not
10 seconds after i went to prop open the hood i saw a puddle of coolant
coming from around the driver's side front wheel. after propping open the
hood, i saw coolant leaking from the expansion tank's sensor - upon closer
inspection (the engine's still hot) i noticed that the coolant was coming
from four sides of the sensor, so i thought maybe this was normal. plus,
the expansion tank has this little "bridge" of sorts, and when the coolant
leaked from the center where the sensor is, it looked like this was the
planned escape route for coolant. i'm going back to the car in a few
minutes to take another look (and bentley's made no mention of this). is
what i've experienced normal??? or did my mechanic put on the sensor
incorrectly thereby leaving some gap exposed??
tia,
dave


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