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Old Jan 14, 2003 | 03:06 AM
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Default My car puked something.....

Right.....Anyway, my car usually leaks a little oil, not a big deal. Leakes a lil coolant, not a big deal. But today it was a different story. I backed out of the garage to wash my ride and i look down at the garage floor pan and there was a healthy collection of what looked like pink or grey malt-o-meal <img border="0" alt="[barf]" title="" src="graemlins/gr_barf.gif" /> . Weird...i tried to look under my car but couldnt see much, ill look tomorrow. What i saw was it dripped on the passenger side of my swaybar.then onto the ground. thats it. What the hell is this stuff?? <img border="0" alt="[bullshit]" title="" src="graemlins/gr_bs.gif" />
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Old Jan 14, 2003 | 05:36 AM
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Default Re: My car puked something.....

Battery acid leaking from the positive terminal?

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Old Jan 14, 2003 | 05:47 AM
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That's what I was thinking. Check you battery connections. If it is the battery get some baking soda and mix it in warm water and start cleaning up the acid. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="gr_grin.gif" />
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Old Jan 14, 2003 | 08:12 AM
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Default Re: My car puked something.....

If you have an auto check your trans fluid!!! I had friend that wasted his trans because somehow the trans fluid and radiator coolant got mixed together. I guess the trans cooler in the radiator leaked mixing the trans fluid and anti-freeze together. When you popped his radiator cap and check his trans fluid it looked just like you described.
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Old Jan 14, 2003 | 07:24 PM
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Your car puked something??

Didn't by chance eat a Mustang on the way home and give your car indigestion?? <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="gr_grin.gif" /> <img border="0" alt="[evil]" title="" src="graemlins/gr_devil.gif" />
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Old Jan 16, 2003 | 02:48 AM
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ahaha. I looked and it was not the battery.The leak appeared to be coming from a rubber hose. at the very bottom of the car near the middle of the engine. Im gonna put the car in the air tomorrow and loook at it more closely. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Frown]" src="gr_sad.gif" />
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Old Jan 16, 2003 | 03:48 PM
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sounds kinda like a trans line might be leaking a little I think the lines are rubber after the K-member and then metal again at the trans.

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