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Signs of coolent leekage into engine

Tiny
MARIOALVIS
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  • 1998 MITSUBISHI PAJERO
  • 300,000 MILES
Mitsubishi Pajero 3500cc v6 petrol engine. A/t light came on stop vehicle found excess flow of coolant in to reserve tank boiling. Coolant in radiator minimum. After a while coolant from reserve tank drastically reduced and coolant in radiator was missing. No leek age was found what are the causes of this and how much to fix?
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Sunday, January 1st, 2012 AT 4:53 AM

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Tiny
RASMATAZ
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Pressurize the radiator and the cap-
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Sunday, January 1st, 2012 AT 4:59 AM
Tiny
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Do u think that the coolant has seeped in to the engine and if so will it cost much to fix? And is it a meager repair? As there was no coolant leek age externally visible where has it gone?
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Sunday, January 1st, 2012 AT 12:47 PM
Tiny
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Until you do a pressure test on the cooling system, you aren't going to know where it went.
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Sunday, January 1st, 2012 AT 1:30 PM

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