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The smell of coolant - a common problem with 850's? 850 1996

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posted by  alschnertz on  Tue Oct 29 17:21 CST 2013
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x2. Yup, it's a weak link.
"Sweating coolant" is nonsense. A heater core should not leak, period.
Replace it before you find fog on the windshield.
It's actually relatively easy if you're handy with tools.
I'm going to try to eliminate the firewall coupling when I do ours.
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