Hi all,

I have never seen this in my Cherokee before, but I had the jeep parked on a very slight incline for about 4 days....

I had two small boxes of kleenex sitting on the passenger floor--front seat. I have full rubber floor liners. After 4 days of being parked on a slight incline, the two boxes of kleenex were soaked with a pink fluid.

My engine coolant looks to be green. Radiator fluid is bright green. Washer fluid is blue.

What the heck?! Any ideas? Some searching leads me to believe I could have a heater core issue, but the fluid color confuses me.

87,000 miles....2000 XJ

Thanks!!!

 

Trans fluid is pink, not sure how it got inside the cabin tho

 

Sounds like a heater core problem to me. The Pink fluid does throw me off though. Rent a pressure tester and see if your cooling system loses pressure quickly and look for leaks. If it leaks and you cant see it, it is probably the heater core.

 

Does your windshield leak? Do you have rust at the top of your A-pillars or along the top of your windshield under the plastic trim piece? My MI jeep rusted away from that and the color could be from from something in or on the floor that is bleeding

 

No...to the best of my knowledge, my windshield does not leak. There is very little rust on this jeep at all as it was hidden away in a garage for most of the last 10+ years.

It has only had the pink fluid show on the floor the one time--never happened again.

My engine coolant is at the "ADD" mark, but again, it looks like it's green.

Dan

 

Yeah....I just can't figure out the pink fluid. Can't find any fluid thats pink.

thanks,

Dan

 

Trans fluid is pink but how it would get there, I have no clue. Did you spill your slushie from 7/11? haha

 

what color are the kleenex? maybe that is making it look like a color it isn't?

 

That's a great thought, but the boxes were white and grey with white tissues. I thought the same thing....

Dan

 

Ha! I like blue raspberry!

 

maybe some old leak detection fluid coming from the heater core

 

Forgive my lack of car smarts--I don't understand....I've had the jeep for over a year and 23,000 miles of personal driving. I have never had it checked. Could "old detection fluid" stay that long? Why would it show now? Is leak detection fluid pink?

Thanks,

Dan

 

i have no idea if it could stay that long or what color it is. its the only thing i could think of that would make sense to me

 

Someone told me I could put some kind of "leak-stop" in the radiator (some kind of leak-stop beads or something). Someone else told me you could dump a box of pepper in the radiator and it would plug up any existing leaks for a while! I find that hard to believe that's a good idea!

I'm not convinced I have a bad leak, but maybe something like this could hold me over until the Spring?

Dan

 

my thought on stop leak is. its designed to plug holes and your running it through all your water jackets in the head. some say they wont plug that big of a hole.