Pony Tricks
What’s That Smell
| 30 June 2009
You’re riding along in your pony one cold morning with the heater turned on when suddenly the cabin fills with an odor that smells like antifreeze. The humidity inside the car shoots up and the windshield fogs over. The smell gets stronger and you feel like you’re in a steam bath. What just happened?
What happened was that the heater core ruptured and it’s spilling hot antifreeze inside your car. It’s bad enough to blow a radiator hose in the engine compartment but a blown heater core in the passenger compartment is far more gut wrenching. A radiator hose can be replaced in the field, the radiator can be filled with antifreeze mix, and you can be on your way. If you don’t have a concours engine compartment, that’s pretty much the end of the story. It’s messy, it’s inconvenient, but when it’s over, it’s over.
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