Coolant tank leak on Freightliner
Hi Everybody - Taking off today thru the Nevada desert I discovered a pin hole leak on my Fleetwood Excursion Freightliner chasis. While small it was a steady stream and I had to go back to the RV...
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I would use a sheet metal screw and rubber washer with the weld. If it leaked I would loosen the pressure cap and monitor the temp.
This otoh is great advice and about the most solid ad hoc repair plan.
Even better if you find a screw with a rubber gasket like for metal roofs.
Will work in the wet also. But if you can do the repair “dry” I’d use some more of the JB stuff, epoxy or even rtv on the threads to help glue it in.Grit, instead of belittling and making fun of people, how about you actually throw some advice into the mix, if you know what is not right surely you know what is right, or are you just hear to make snippy comments and make people fell bad?
Well, I think I did when expounding on the use a screw to plug the hole response. (Know that this is a temporary fix, even if it may work well for….however many miles).
But I’ll maintain that defeating the cooling system’s ability to hold pressure in the hopes of that being suitable enough is definitely bad advice.
I mean, I do recall doing that in an old car for short distances to limp it to work and back til I could fix it, but that is wholly a different scenario than open road pull in a RV.
But to that end, I fell for replying to a 2 year old thread…. Just one of the joys of this beautiful forum.PS, I thought it was helpful….to the person needing to limp their RV along. If they did what that person said and left the radiator cap loose they wouldn’t have made it very far at all before overheating.
