I just noticed the leak at 16,800 miles. I have the Piston Slap too. Lucky me.

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99 Lightning, Bassani exhaust, JL Ram Air, Superchip(JL Programmed), Level 10 shift kit. No ET yet.
Sold- 98 Cobra. FM 2 Chamber, K&N, Steeda Triax, 4.10's, MAC offroad H. Best Cobra 1/4mile 13.8.
Sold- 96 Z28 ATI Procharged 13.5.

 

00 "L" with 8500mi and no leak yet.

 

Tundra,
I developed a leak at 12,000 miles, my dealership had no clue what to do so i'm at 15,000 miles now and add 2 inches of coolant every two weeks. I have another appointment this week, they supposedly have some tests they can run now to see if it is leaking. Duh
Larry

 

1500 mi and no leak yet, I check it every week though

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GalaxyEng
2000 RED #2926
BedRug, Haig custom mats

 

Leak began at 25K along with a serious engine problem. Intercooler is being relaced as we speaqk. The mechanoc said that the pressure test is ineffective in determining a leak and cannot reproduce actual running conditions....Ken

 

Does anyone know if there is going to be a recall on the 99 & 00 lightnings? There should be!!

 

*sigh*
my intercooler is dying..

leak started about 16.5k miles. 2 weeks ago..
damn thing isn't even a year old.
born on 3-21-00

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brooks
'00 silver "L"
#1350 of 4966
member NLOC #496
best e.t. - 13.24@102.61
my zing albums - _-click here-_

_-mods-_
clunk (free with purchase) - fixed?
V1 radar detector
colormatched ventvisors
redline waterwetter
mobile1 oil & filter
eaton inside sticker
2" drop shackles
pro sport bed cover & bedrug
clear corners
R9 superchip & airaid system
superbright headlights & foglights
street scene sport mirrors
brushed billet grills
indiglo ford emblem
euro tails? - up next
waiting on lunar guages
clonetek@jam.rr.com

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ARGGGGH! Add me to the list. Build date 8/4/99 Changed the oil about a week ago,level was perfect. Two nights ago she "felt" different on the ride home from work,checked the level yesterday...Down about a 1/2 from the top fill line. Goin out to check her again right now and to make an appointment for her. Also appears my allignment is royally frucked,and I still have a few other bizarre sounds emenating from my Bolt. Still totally stock after almost 2 yrs.

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Getting mine back from the Dealer today...Got the leak at 10,400 miles.

Truck was built on March 10, 2000.

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AtomHeart
2000 Silver Lightnin'
1969 Ford Fairlane Cobra R code w/ 3.91 dragpack
atomhart@cyberhighway.net

 

Dealer has mine apart now. Second trip to diagnose the problem. Total time in shop for problem to date 8 days. Five days in Jan. for testing, but no problem found? Currently in for third day this week. No intercooler in sight. Parts are back ordered, and no one can tell me when they will be avail. Started leaking at 13,500. Now have 18,300 mi.

Now driving my 16 year old El Camino. If something isn't done soon, to give me an new truck!

#3723 of 4966, built 6/7/00. Most thought that the problem was fixed on the later models built in 2000. Not so.

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Red 00"
Pro-M mass air
Swanson Chip
*******'s bed cover

 

I just joined the ranks of those with leaking I/Cs. Best I can tell it happened at ~14.2k miles. It has lost less than 8 ounces in the last 600 miles. Dealer tested it and confirmed it is leaking this last Monday.

They received the new intercooler yesterday (less than 48 hrs after ordering it), and I'm taking the truck in Monday to have it installed.



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Wes Tarbox
90 LX 5.0 (10.69 @ 134.7)--597rwhp/590rwtq
96 Cobra (12.34 @ 115.8)--392rwhp/433rwtq
99 Lightning (13.20 @ 103.8)--364rwhp/447rwtq
00 Expedition XLT 5.4
http://hometown.aol.com/wa2fst/home.htm

 

Hello,
My little baby truck devloped a slight Core leak @ 21000 miles. (I was adding Approx 8 oz of fluid to the reservoir every 250 miles)

Then at 22500 miles she spit out a Spark Plug! Any correlation twixed the two, I don't know. One can only speculate....

J.

 

My intercooler is starting to leak again and this will now be my 3rd cooler install,but the one i install next will be a better flowing one that should provide more torque than the stock one did!

Matt

 

1999 Lightning #1791
Began leaking @ 23,000 miles
Adding water, waiting for better intercooler
Thought I was one of the lucky ones...guess not. Any new word on the new design?

Brad




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Add me to the list. My L 99 #3485 born on Wed. 8/11/99 has sprung a leak at 14,200 miles. I checked it last week and it was about 1/2 empty. My L goes to the dealership on the 7th. The intercooler is now empty but I do not want to put more fluid in it. What should I do?

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