Happy Monday… 
Car seems to be running fine now that I topped off the coolant so not bringing it into the shop today. The reserve coolant tank has a very small leak right at the top were a fitting is. Going to pickup some epoxy and see if I can fix the leak otherwise I'll just have the tank replaced later this week but at least now I know what the problem was.
Yesterday started off so good and then I went to dinner with a few friends where we drank a couple of bottles of white wine. Normally white wine doesn't affect me badly but for some odd reason we all ended up very drunk followed by headaches from hell. All very strange as it was someplace that we eat at ll the time and the wine was the same wine that we usually order. None of us had eaten all day so maybe that was it.
So since I had a really bad headache I tried the new headache meds that the doctor gave me. It is called Imitrex and you spray up your nose. Didn't really help the headache at all but it did give me the shits really bad and made me feell like I had drank about 20 cups of coffee.
Anyway the headache ruined my plans for the rest of the evening as I was suppose to go out clubbing with a few friends and instead took something to help me sleep and went to bed.
I have some errands to do today and then just a day of work planned today. If I get done with everything early enough I may hit the beach late this evening.
Comments
Cleo, epoxy may not stick due to coolant residue. I had the same problem and the fault was with the connection. Suggest you look into a new clamp (or tighten the existing one)first, then a new hose and clamp.
Posted by: Rich | August 1, 2006 09:06 AM
Not the hose or hose clamp.
You can actually see a very small crack where the fitting comes out of the top left side of the coolant tank.
First I removed the hose and then took some PVC cleaner and a wire brush and cleaned and roughened up the area around the crack. Then I took some fiberglass resin and some fiberglass and laid it over the crack. Then I pushed the hose right over the repair after putting down another layer of resin so now the hose is basically fiberglassed over then crack right into the top of the tank.
So far so good with no leaks. If it does start leaking again I'm just going to replace the whole tank.
Posted by: Cleo | August 1, 2006 10:18 AM