What are the Causes of Antifreeze Leaking?

Antifreeze present in the car’s cooling system plays a major function in helping car’s engine from burning like an inferno, in short from overheating. This antifreeze, also known as coolant is transported from the engine of the car to the radiator, where it is mixed with the air through the vents in the radiator. The air there helps the coolant to cool down before it enters the hot and burning engine once more.

This coolant also travels from the vehicle’s engine all the way to the heater core, where it gets warm so as to provide warmer air for the passengers during the winter season. An antifreeze leak can cause the vehicle’s engine to heat up real fast and enough to cause severe damage to the engine.

The professionals of Jsk Automotive, the acclaimed Hyundai Car Parts dealer have put up few reasons why that might happen in the first place.

Radiator Hoses: The hoses that are connected to the radiator can be the potential culprits of antifreeze leakage. With time, radiator hose wears down, crack and slip. This causes the coolant to leak from in-between the cracks. So it is only fair to check the length of the hoses for any possible signs of damage. There can be one more culprit behind this fiasco, and that are hose clamps, which also deteriorate with time. So don’t forget to take a note of them too.

Radiator Cap: The radiator cap is situated on the top of the radiator. It is imperative that the radiator cap should be pressure tested.  This is particularly important if the engine is overheating and there is a continuous decrease in the level of the coolant with no signs of external leaks. A loose radiator cap or a blown head gasket that hold the pressure will allow the engine to heat up pretty fast and allow coolant to leak to the outside of your engine and onto the ground.

Bad Water Pump: There is one more space from where the coolant can slip and that is from the water-pump housing. The head gasket and the seals surrounding it may fail over time, which causes the bearing to fail in the process, which in turn cause the coolant to leak. This can only be inspected when the engine is running since the leak occurs when the pump is operating.

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