1750 mystery coolant leak

[AlfaNeely@domain.elided]

    If the front cover is leaking coolant, you have two choices.  Pull the head, oil pan and front cover and replace the gasket.  Or put in some stop leak and hope it works.  If not, you have only one alternative.
    My 82 spider did exactly the same thing.  It developed a small leak behind the alternator.  Stop leak did the trick.  The cylinder head on my 84 race car developed a leak after I put on a new head gasket.  I got the engine hot and retorqued it without success.  Again, stop leak did the trick.
    I have used Bars Leak, Aluma Seal, etc. at various times.  All seems equally good and bad. I have never used black pepper or egg whites.

Ciao,
Russ Neely
Oklahoma City


In a message dated Thu, 19 Sep 2002 16:08:10 +0000, owner-alfa-digest@domain.elided writes:

> Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 10:13:56 EDT
> From: GModelle@domain.elided
> Subject: 1750 mystery coolant leak 
<snip>
the front 
> cover gasket was failing, pissing a perfect stream of prestone directly at 
> the back of the alternater. This only happened when the revs were up above 
> idle. What an insidious failure!  My task load now involves yanking the 
> motor, unless anyone out there has a better idea. 
> "Leak-stop"? "A raw egg"?
> Thanks, Digest.
> Modelle in Somers Point
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