Well sunday, spent another 4 hours under the truck pullin the cooler off, makin a fricken mess, saved as much coolant as possible, took my little plastic wheel to the 90* elbow and found the metal gasket had some black coating on it that was peeling up. Dunno what the heck it was there for but ill bet its what was causing my leak. Cleaned all that brack crap off and used black RTV on both sides. soaked all the coolant out of the cooler and put it back together. let it sit for 6 hours and filled it back up with coolant. didnt drive it till the next mornin and no more leak!! even got on it a few times on the way home to make sure she wouldnt leak.
So then i moved onto my gauge cluster to see if i could fix my blank PNRD display and message center. spent a few hours on it looking for loose or broke soilder connections as that seemed to be the cause of them going blank but found nothing. only thing i could find is one leg of the display was not receiving any power from the IPC but i cant pull that apart without unsoildering 1500 connections so looks like ill be hunting for a good cluster. anyone have any suggestion on a replacment that wont cost me an arm and leg? might have to push buying additional autometer gauges off till next month
