Mercury Sable/ Ford Taurus Coolant Leak/ Oil Leak Repair Part 5

[RAC22963]

how much labor was involved?

[asteinman1]

Ok disregard my comment in part 4. Just found part 5 and looks like you are good to go :)

[GATisdale]

Use distilled water w/concentrated coolant, or the 1/2 &1/2 mix. Tap water leaves lime deposits, which can foul your cooling system.

Thanks for the good documentary. You're a better man than I, for pulling the Y-pipe. I didn't, to pull the oil pan and TC cover.

I have an 02 Sable, too. Radiator fouled, and let ATF into the cooling system, and vice versa, w/ temp up/dn. New gaskets, w/p, t/c assy, tranny, you name it. Integration of the ATF fluid cooling into the radiator is dumb.

[Mikeandwendy74]

Makes me want to vomit to realize today that my car is doing the same dam thing, I fix everything from engine rebuilds to transmissions, but tell you what this looks like a bitch.

[ushouldntjudgeme]

So it looks exactly like my problem, I have an '01 Taurus 3.0L , it was leaking and steaming the other day, I replaced the water pump yesterday, and while pouring coolant into the tank, it was dripping. Really hard to tell just where it's coming from, back side of engine, I didn't even start it up!!!. I kinda thought it may be head gasket, but after seeing this series of video, will check this timing cover gasket. I really dread the job...you made it look easy! Excellent video! Thanks!