High Temperature Coolant Reservoir Failure

[ryanjl]

Here's another video. Taken right after a drive. You can see it bubbling right up at the seam.

I waited about 45 minutes after driving for the coolant to depressurize and stop bubbling. Hit the area with some 100 grit sandpaper, then an alcohol wipe, then slapped some high-heat JB Weld on it. We'll see how it does tomorrow.

 

[ryanjl]

Spoke with Red Noland today. They did not act too alarmed and said they've seen several leak but have never seen one just outright blow. Ineos roadside assistance could have it towed there to fix, but then I'd be looking at flying there to drive it back.

So, current plan is to just have them do it sometime in late June, early July. I'll be driving out to Colorado around then as I'm having a downhill mountain bike built that I'll be itching to kill myself on.

In the meantime, the temperature here took a cool turn so I'm going to probably wait until tomorrow morning for last night's JB Weld patch to fully cure before I see how my temp fix works.