coolant overflow bottle leak

[JonB]

Keith, as jerry descripes, one possibility is that you hammared the under-facia and punctured the bottle.

More likley is the dreaded "Viper Colic" that develops, trapping air in the motor, and requires burping. Why? Air expands 97.2337 (?!) times more than water when heated the same amount. The expanding air heat-soaks after shutoff, and keeps 'topping off' your facia bottle, and puking the coolant into the facia after you have stopped a while.

Visualise the bottle thru the viewing port in the RF wheelwell.
Is it EMPTY? Then you have a leak as Jerry describes. Is it FULL? (Thunls like a watermelon when you reach thru the fenderwell port!) Then the problem is the one I describe.

A less-likley 3rd option is that the hose or bottle top came off!

Good LucK!

JonB

 

[Jerry Scott[CO]]

Here's what may have happened to the bottle. There is a body bolt that points upward directly under the bottle, at least in my 97 GTS. If you should hit something with the air dam at the front lower part of the fascia (like going off road at a track event), the fascia can get pushed upward and this bolt sometimes pierces the bottom of the bottle. To keep it from happening next time, remove the bolt from the bottom of the fascia and grind about 1/4 in. off it and leave the end flat with no point, then put it back. The shop manual will tell you how to get to the bottle to replace it or maybe someone else can elaborate.
Jerry Scott[CO]