Friday, May 7, 2021

Windshield and Coolant Leaks Fixed??

 New windshield installed.  We believe the old top frame member had a bend in the last four inches of  the driver's side that caused the crack.  Here's a picture of the new glass sitting inside the old top frame without any rubber packing and you can see the difference in curvature of the last four inches of the top versus the glass.  Look at the bottom of the picture and you can see the outer surface of the glass as it relates to the frame:


We had also applied JB Weld 3 times to the block, slowed down the leak but was still there.  So we bought some of this stuff:



The leakage rates slowed down even more after we put this leak repair stuff in the cooling system.  The video in a prior post showed a leakage rate of about one drop every 2 seconds.  We are now down to one drop forming after about one minute or so.  We are hopeful that this will drop even lower.


Update - the leakage rate has dropped to zero!  We are very happy with that.  We also drained the coolant and replaced with fresh just in case the stop leak stuff could cause an issue with clogging the radiator.