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Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2010 11:00 am 
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Hi everyone,

i've noticed over the past month or so (ever since getting an LPG conversion) my BA has been using a fair bit of coolant

I topped it up with over a litre of coolant about 3 weeks ago which has now disappeared

I have looked for leaks and couldn't find any, any suggestions as to which this may be happening?

p.s. car has done 110,000 km
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Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2010 11:15 am 
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shazam wrote:
Hi everyone,

i've noticed over the past month or so (ever since getting an LPG conversion) my BA has been using a fair bit of coolant

I topped it up with over a litre of coolant about 3 weeks ago which has now disappeared

I have looked for leaks and couldn't find any, any suggestions as to which this may be happening?

p.s. car has done 110,000 km



Same thing was happening to me, ended up being the gasket in the gas converter.

 

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Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2010 12:44 pm 
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if you have a real close look at where the hoses go into your gas converter you will prabably see it leaks ever so slowly at the connections where the fittings go into the convertor itself most do. it should settle down soon as it forms scale around those fittings
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 Post subject: Re: ba xt (6 cyl) using coolant
Posted: Sat Feb 20, 2010 10:59 am 
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SV-valiant it looks like you may be right- I'm going to take it back to my installer on monday anyway to check everything over

thanks guys
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 Post subject: Re: ba xt (6 cyl) using coolant
Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2010 4:29 pm 
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I went to my lpg installer and the very small leak in the converter hose doesn't really explain why I lost 2 litres of coolant in a month.

Any other ideas?
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