How to Find Fluid Leaks in your Vehicle

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Video tutorial on how to find a fluid leak in your vehicle. It’s important to maintain all your fluid levels in your vehicle, but unfortunately due to age components can fail such as hoses, gaskets, seals, or sealants. Eventually your vehicle forms a leak that can jeopardize a component causing premature failure. Fluids which can leak in your vehicle include engine oil, power steering fluid, washer fluid, fuel, coolant, brake fluid, freon, transmission oil, differential oil, and transfer case oil. Not all vehicles include all these components I have listed, so it will depend on your vehicle. The typical sign of a leak is the fluid level dropping. It’s important to start out with a clean engine bay, so I would normally recommend cleaning it, I do have a video on this. This allows us to easily spot a leak and it’s much nicer to work in a clean engine bay.

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Tools/Supplies Needed:
-florescent dye
-ultraviolet light
-yellow safety glasses

Procedure:
-for this I am using a dye which can be purchased in a small bottle such as this from a local auto parts supplier and is specific to certain fluids
-add the dye to the system, drive or run the vehicle or a certain period of time depending on the severity of the leak, and then inspect for leaks
-in order to spot that leak, you will need an ultraviolet light
-here I am using this multi mode diagnostic light from Mobile Distributor Supply made by OEM Tools
-using yellow safety glasses will help spot the dye while also provide protection for your keys from the uv light
-click through the modes until you activate the UV light and scan the engine bay
-a uv light is needed to highlight the florescent dye that was added to the system
-for AC systems, you can purchase dye in a bottle such as this, but you will need an injection pump
-other times, AC can also be purchased in a compressed bottle which simply plugs onto the system
-a leak will be highlight with the florescent dye at the area it is leaking
-repair the leak as required, this maybe something simple like tightening a clamp, to replacing a gasket, replacing a part or repairing a cracked casting

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