My Intercooler is not currently leaking aproching 10,000 miles But I am thinking about puting in a bottle of bars leak so that if I do get a leak hopefully it will seal it while it is small. Any thoughts and will it harm the pump or anything? Thanks

 

I'm no expert but I'm planning on doing the same thing myself. I don't think that it would hurt anything, given that the Stop Leak is designed for cooling systems.

 

Just be sure to use no more than a 1/3 of a bottle, and SHAKE WELL And also be sure NOT to use Bar's leak with the pellets...someone did, and ran into tons of problems...

 

is the bars stop leak a liquid or powder?

all i can find is the "alumaseal" brand..
its a small tube with silver powder in it.
all the other kinds have rabbit pellets in it. ugh!
since the intercooler is aluminum, would this alumaseal stuff work better?

forget it.. i just found some JB Weld. i'll patch it up in a jiffy!

brooks

 

It's a liquid in a small gray bottle. I see it every where for 1.99 a bottle. PEP-Boys,Advanced Auto Parts, Auto Zone, and NAPA all carry it here in DE.

You'l find it, that JB weld might be a little extreme LOL

 

I mentioned Bars Leak to my tranny mechanic and he advised me to use GB cooling system sealer. Said it would not hurt the motor. Added a can and it stopped the leak right away, and I had a bad, bad leak. Don't see how any of it could have got in the motor cause the reservoir didn't go down at all. I recommend this product over the Bars Leak.

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aargh! decisions decisions... help!

 

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just get something done at the first sign of coolerant loss. putting in this stuff is asking for trouble. one look at the resivor you can tell something strange is in it. i took mine in at the first sign of loss and they replaced it. showed discoloring and A BROKEN WELD WITH THE LOSS OF 1/2 A TANK of fulid.

 

ally69,

I would flush it out rather than leaving it in. You must remeber, this is a tip that we did and is not intened for this application, but it seemed to work for some.

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I would like to by a 2001 model. Have any of you heard of problems with the 2001 intercooler. Did they really fix it?

 

Why yes they did!! They fixed it so you wont need one till you hit 15k miles. The reason no 2001s dont have any leaks yet is because they are all low miles so far!!

 

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Sprio How can you tell if it is the one with the pellets? And only 1/3 of small botle? or big bottle?

 

Spiro I only ask because I already added a small bottle the 5.5 once I belive Of the lequid in the gray bottle should I leave it or what??