Was driving up to Laytonville last weekend from the Bay with my wife to pick our daughter up from summer camp and the rig started running a bit on the warm side of the temp gauge. I didn’t think much of it since I was pushing 70-75 at 21-2500 RPMs with the AC on blast as it was was 107°F and I was mostly pushing up grade. I blasted the heat for a minute to cool it down which really annoyed my wife “why didn’t we take one of the other cars?” When we got back to the cooler temps of the bay (70°’s-80°s) it leveled back to the middle of the gauge but when I got back home I noticed some coolant dripping from the EGR cooler area. When I got under it the whole pipe was wet.
The only tool I have to tighten this nut is a big a$$ crescent wrench and it’s too long to really get it in there. I’m not sure if the nut is loose or if the unit is cracked. The idea of pulling the motor to tighten or change this thing out (if I can find one) sucks. What size wrench do I need? Maybe I’ll buy one at Harborfright and cut to nub size. Any other ideas on this thing? And before you say ‘get rid of it’ I can’t. I’m in California.
Any other thoughts?
You can just barely see the drip here
From underneath. Pipe is pretty wet.
The only pic I took on the trip. In front of a killer bakery in Healdsburg. Another cruiser head saw my rig and stopped and chatted me up while we were here.
The only tool I have to tighten this nut is a big a$$ crescent wrench and it’s too long to really get it in there. I’m not sure if the nut is loose or if the unit is cracked. The idea of pulling the motor to tighten or change this thing out (if I can find one) sucks. What size wrench do I need? Maybe I’ll buy one at Harborfright and cut to nub size. Any other ideas on this thing? And before you say ‘get rid of it’ I can’t. I’m in California.
Any other thoughts?
You can just barely see the drip here
From underneath. Pipe is pretty wet.
The only pic I took on the trip. In front of a killer bakery in Healdsburg. Another cruiser head saw my rig and stopped and chatted me up while we were here.
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