I am starting to notice a film developing on the inside of my front windsheild. What could it be? I have also noticed that since last year a little of the antifreeze has been sneaking out of my overflow bottle/holding bottle. Has anyone else had this experience? Am I headed donw the road of a heater core replacement? Thanks for the help in advance....

Ben

 

Very well could be. You could bypass the heater core, clean it, and see if it changes anything. Just rinse out the heater core really good...

 

I have been looking into that mod. Guess now would be a good time to do it. See if the film does not come back. Then when the weather from the north moves down and I need the heater and it comes back I have my answer,huh? Need to do the flush and change also. I have been looking at putting two t's on the bypass mod to get the coolant out from between 5 and 6 while also doing the bypass. Seems like the best idea to give the coolant that was going to the heater core a place to go as well as the coolant from between 5 and 6. I just hate playing plumber though, I dont have a big enough butt to show their amount of crack....LMAO....

Caught your message about people dying when your jobs not done right. I build and maintain what they land on. USMC Engineer Operator here.

 

I don't know how the 06 is, but I was just going to take the line coming from the head and bend it over to the return, as long as it does not kink. If not, I was just going to get some copper pipe and braze a 'U'. I'm cheap!

Semper Fi. I feel for you, that's a rough job, but I'd love to be able to work with my hands like a man instead of chasing microcircuits with a multimeter and o-scopes...

 

ok I just thought through what I posted I messed up. I meant a bypass valve and two t- fittings. Keep the heater flow moving and get the 5 to 6 gap moving also...... EARL has me distracted..... Hoping to be able to get a new garage....LOL...

 

I know what you meant.

Just pull a tree down and jerk the corner of the garage down with the truck...

 

hoorah, Thank You,
Well with the new equipment we are getting, Terex MAC-50 hydro, mobile cranes and KALMAR container handlers not to mention the 120M cat road grader coming with joystick controls, should have seen me trying to operate a vehicle with joysticks, funny crap for bout the first hour, but between me and you though the joysticks are better once your use to them. SHSHSH, on that though dont want the young guys to know. LOL, we are going to that route also. HECK, the new john deere 624K TRAM 10k front loaders are just as bad, variable geo turbos push button transmission selection, auto forward/reverser just flip it to reverse from forward slows you down then goes backwards you can still help the slow down between with the brake but its automatic. My first thought was I rather keep my old mechanical 644 at least when an oil line gets shot I can duck tape it for a little while and keep going. Finding a skinned wire from shrapnel may just take too long...

Go figure the trees around the shed have been holding the best...LOL

 

It's not your coolant. Some vehicles do it and some don't. i can't explain why but it happens. My truck has done it from new and I have not lost any coolant. My previous Dodge didn't do it be the one before that did. A friend of mine drives a GMC and his does it also.

 

another question along the coolant line..... Is a coolant filter really worth it? Since I have been led to believe that most damage in cooling systems is from the ph and it turning corrosive more so then from contaminates, which are caused by corrosion? What you think? Interested in others thoughts on this...

 

You can read here >>> https://www.dieseltruckresource.com/...coolant+filter for some good information on coolant filters.