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Old Sep 9, 2008 | 08:03 PM
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Ok yesterday i ran seafoam through my truck and it all went fine at first.Then later that night i noticed the temp getting a little hot so i went home and let it sit.Then today i noticed it smoking from the back of the engine and checked the coolant and it was brown and burnt smelling.Then i noticed something leaking from underneath from arunt the back of the engine and thier was melted black plastic around were it was leaking onto the ground.Like a thick black flat plastic.Please help me fix my problem.
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Old Sep 9, 2008 | 09:04 PM
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Default RE: smake and burnt coolant

I highly doubt that the seafoam caused this. In the 30+ applications I have used seafoam in, I have yet to have it cause any system failures, but there is always a chance. Did the engine backfire at any point during the treatment? Can you get a small mechanics mirror and pin point the location of the leak?
 
Old Sep 9, 2008 | 09:10 PM
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Im not blaming it on the seafoam just figured i would say i did do that before i had this problem.I will tommorrow look under the truck after i get out of school.
 
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