Red Fluid Leak
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Melting Slicks
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Red Fluid Leak
Took my '06 vert out for a warm up today after a couple weeks of sitting in the garage. Noticed several drop spots of a clean, red fluid beneath the engine area.
Could this be from the Z-51 tranny cooler? It's a manual. Car ran fine with no warnings on DIC.
Could this be from the Z-51 tranny cooler? It's a manual. Car ran fine with no warnings on DIC.
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Possible - could also be Power Steering.
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clucth chatter
Hello guys and gails got a new clucth replace every thing when pulling out old clucth have some clucth shake they say thats normal for a little while is this sound right? thanks greg
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I hate to suggest, but anti-freeze can easily be confirmed by a tiny taste with tongue...sweet. Then complete mouth rinse. Don't swallow, although you can easily taste it with about 1/20 of one drop, which can't hurt anyway. PS fluid is not red, unless someone has put auto trans fluid in it (in a pinch its OK). I don't know what color the manual trans fluid is...perhaps others will chime in there. Coolant is orange, not really red. ATF is true red.
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I hate to suggest, but anti-freeze can easily be confirmed by a tiny taste with tongue...sweet. Then complete mouth rinse. Don't swallow, although you can easily taste it with about 1/20 of one drop, which can't hurt anyway. PS fluid is not red, unless someone has put auto trans fluid in it (in a pinch its OK). I don't know what color the manual trans fluid is...perhaps others will chime in there. Coolant is orange, not really red. ATF is true red.
If it tastes sweet, then it's anti-freeze. Power steering fluid is not red, but automatic trany fluid is.....manual trany fluid is brown (what I remember), hmmm; interesting.
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I hate to suggest, but anti-freeze can easily be confirmed by a tiny taste with tongue...sweet. Then complete mouth rinse. Don't swallow, although you can easily taste it with about 1/20 of one drop, which can't hurt anyway. PS fluid is not red, unless someone has put auto trans fluid in it (in a pinch its OK). I don't know what color the manual trans fluid is...perhaps others will chime in there. Coolant is orange, not really red. ATF is true red.
With spring coming, I think we should setup the blind tatse test which was made famous by the Coke vs Pepsi ads of a decade ago.
Hmm, let me try that first one again...
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I hate to suggest, but anti-freeze can easily be confirmed by a tiny taste with tongue...sweet. Then complete mouth rinse. Don't swallow, although you can easily taste it with about 1/20 of one drop, which can't hurt anyway. PS fluid is not red, unless someone has put auto trans fluid in it (in a pinch its OK). I don't know what color the manual trans fluid is...perhaps others will chime in there. Coolant is orange, not really red. ATF is true red.
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my guess is the water pump,,,it can just seap out or go all together. If its just seaping out of the weap hole it may not be enough to show up low on the overflow tank yet.
I am a little nutty, i taste everything. Working on cars alot of years you get dripped on alot, so you start to know the difference between everything. i can taste the difference between 10/30 and 10/40,,,,,,,,,,,,just kidding there,lol
I am a little nutty, i taste everything. Working on cars alot of years you get dripped on alot, so you start to know the difference between everything. i can taste the difference between 10/30 and 10/40,,,,,,,,,,,,just kidding there,lol
