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Maintaining all fluid levels is an essential task, as you especially don't want to run your brand-new engine low on coolant and possibly overheat it. Also, air bubbles will take a bit of time to find their way out, requiring at least a couple of top-offs. This liquid is also a window to your engine's health: coolant discoloration could be a sign of a head gasket problem (such as combustion gases entering water passages). Also, a continuing drop in fluid level here or in the surge tank could mean that coolant is escaping through a leak in the system. This leak could be the result of something as innocent as a damaged radiator cap (as in our case--whew!), or as sinister as a poorly sealing head gasket dumping coolant into the oil system.
Ls1 Engine Build - My First Stroker Part 4

 Maintaining all fluid levels is an essential task, as you especially don't want to run your brand-new engine low on coolant and possibly overheat it. Also, air bubbles will take a bit of time to find their way out, requiring at least a couple of top-offs. This liquid is also a window to your engine's health: coolant discoloration could be a sign of a head gasket problem (such as combustion gases entering water passages). Also, a continuing drop in fluid level here or in the surge tank could mean that coolant is escaping through a leak in the system. This leak could be the result of something as innocent as a damaged radiator cap (as in our case--whew!), or as sinister as a poorly sealing head gasket dumping coolant into the oil system.  View Related Article

 

 

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