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Red fluid coming out after radiator swap 94 Honda.
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Jimbo13
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Oct 2, 2010, 12:21 PM
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Red fluid coming out after radiator swap 94 Honda.
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1994 Accord DX.
My wife rear ended someone and punched a hole in the radiator hitting someones tow ball, not much damage fortunately.
I swapped out the radiator put a gallon of water in waited a bit to check for leaks, all was good so I added a jug of anti freeze.
Directly below my battery stand I began getting a steady stream of red fluid coming out of a half inch black rubber hose directly below the battery. The hose is positioned facing down and is pinned to the frame.
It looks like this may be a drain hose that is supposed to be like that, I don't see any signs of a cut hose.
Is there any kind of drain hose that should dropping liquid, or is this additional damage most likely?
Should this be happening?
Picture of hose
http://img153.imageshack.us/i/hondahose.jpg/
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Hammer Time
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Oct 2, 2010, 12:27 PM
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Just follow it back and see where it's connected.
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Jimbo13
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Oct 2, 2010, 12:52 PM
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It's obviously connected to the coolant system, I can't trace it back without ripping out a ton of stuff.
I just don't know why fluid would be coming out of that tube when I fill up the radiator.
bigger version http://img153.imageshack.us/i/hondahose.jpg/
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Hammer Time
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Oct 2, 2010, 12:54 PM
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If you can't see where it goes from there, we can't see it from here either. It sounds like an overflow but your the one that has to look.
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Jimbo13
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Oct 2, 2010, 1:37 PM
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Can there be a second over flow besides the radiator to over flow tank one? I'm fairly confident examining it nothing was cut or plugged in to it, the way it is fastened facing down strongly suggests it is a drain hose of some kind but I found it perplexing that much liquid would come out from filling the radiator.
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Hammer Time
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Oct 2, 2010, 1:40 PM
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If you can't follow the hose back to see what it's connected to, then it's time for someone else to to look at the car.
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I think what happened is I hooked up the tranny-radiator lines up backwards, I don't see how it could of happened because they only reach one way but my when I check the transmission fluid it's filled up with water now.
So off to the Junk yard more than likely.
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Oct 2, 2010, 11:53 PM
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It sounds like you have a cooler line leak. It would be impossible to hook a rad hose to a cooler line (or it would take some very creative thinking and a lot of hard work at a minimum).
If your tranny has coolant in now there is a 99% chance you have a bad radiator and now a transmission that needs to be flushed before the engine is started or the car is driven..
If I understand your post correctly.......You put in a radiator from a wrecking yard??????? I can't even begin to say how bad of an idea that is.....
(This post was edited by Sidom on Oct 2, 2010, 11:54 PM)
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