{"id":51818,"date":"2017-06-17T19:45:38","date_gmt":"2017-06-17T10:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/?p=51818"},"modified":"2026-09-24T13:44:58","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T04:44:58","slug":"zrx1100-coolant-leak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/20170617\/everyday-events\/zrx1100-coolant-leak","title":{"rendered":"ZRX1100 Coolant Leak"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"decob-3057601720\" class=\"decob- decob-entity-placement\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/advertise\" aria-label=\"ad_sample_1456_180_1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/ad_sample_1456_180_1.png\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/ad_sample_1456_180_1.png 1456w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/ad_sample_1456_180_1-300x37.png 300w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/ad_sample_1456_180_1-1024x127.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/ad_sample_1456_180_1-768x95.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1456px) 100vw, 1456px\" width=\"812\" height=\"100\"   \/><\/a><\/div><p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-51811\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/DSC_4060.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/06\/DSC_4060.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/06\/DSC_4060-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/06\/DSC_4060-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><br \/>\nEvery time I try to fire it up, here we go again\u2014you really never know what&#8217;s going to happen next.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-51812\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/P1660279.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/06\/P1660279.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/06\/P1660279-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/06\/P1660279-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><br \/>\nWhen I took it for a test ride, I noticed a slightly sweet smell and the water temperature was climbing way too fast.<br \/>\nLooking it over carefully, I found a crack that was slowly weeping coolant.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-51813\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/P1660278.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/06\/P1660278.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/06\/P1660278-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/06\/P1660278-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><br \/>\nI peeled it back to confirm, and there was actually a hole too\u2014that&#8217;s dangerous.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-51814\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/DSC_4061.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/06\/DSC_4061.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/06\/DSC_4061-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/06\/DSC_4061-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-51815\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/DSC_4062.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/06\/DSC_4062.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/06\/DSC_4062-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/06\/DSC_4062-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><br \/>\nThe early-model ZRX1100 has some serious creases and wrinkles like a triple belly\u2014this is pretty rough.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-51816\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/P1660280_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/06\/P1660280_1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/06\/P1660280_1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/06\/P1660280_1-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><br \/>\nThe carburetor heater is disabled, so I&#8217;ll cut the new one too. Since it&#8217;s brazed, cutting and welding right at the root isn&#8217;t ideal.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-51817\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/P1660281.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/06\/P1660281.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/06\/P1660281-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/06\/P1660281-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><br \/>\nI patched it up and called it done.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every time I try to fire it up, here we go again\u2014you really never know what&#8217;s going to happen next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51811,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pochipp_cv_data":"","swell_btn_cv_data":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1924],"tags":[180,186],"class_list":["post-51818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-everyday-events","tag-repair","tag-zrx1100"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}