Cape34

After shutting the engine off I smell antifreeze but I cant find a leak anywhere. Not underneath or on the engine. Is it coming from the overflow reservoir? Should I pay to have it checked? It is out of warranty.

corupt1

Check around your water pump. It seems to be pretty common for the water pump to leak and on a lot of them you can see the antifreeze baked on around it.

tractorshop

Same here, sent you a PM

nuke-blue

with that complaint we see it's almost always the radiator. small leak at the upper cores. very hard to see! pull the air intake tube & coolant resivore, peak in through the fan shroud towards the drivers side upper core area. seems too be where they leak most

tractorshop

Thanks for the tip, I'll take a look in that area.

harv3589

Just dropped our jeep off yesterday for the same thing...I've gone thru 2 litres of antifreeze in a couple months. Dealer figures leaky radiator and will replace under warranty.

Winyah

A couple of years ago - same thing. I finally saw a pin hole leak in the end of he radiator while the engine was hot. The spray coming out was a super fine mist. No puddles.

Cape34

Any kind of DIY fix available? Mines out of waranty...

nickjk33

I used bars liquid aluminum stop leak in my radiator. Didn't expect it to hold up very well but lasted 2 and a half months till I could get a new radiator. Had a small hole by my upper radiator hose but it filled it. Lots of people worry about clogged heater cores and such using it but everyone I know who has used bars has never had any issues

Winyah

I bought a new OEM fit radiator online. Tax and delivery was under $100. Spent about 3 hours changing it out myself. That was 4 years ago. Now I have another leak in the same area! The OEM style has a plastic head on both ends. This time I'll spend $375 and get an all metal one.