Help with Bar's Stop Leak

[ThaDyce17]

Recently I discovered I had a intake gasket leak and it started to suck up air from outside. So I ran this block seal stuff in my car hoping it'd do something. It's the kind that can be added to Anti-Freeze... Anyways I ran it so now im waiting for it to cool off. It said it could seal Intake Gaskets. Do you guys thing it'll work? Have you ever used it for an Intake Gasket leak before?

[cam98aro]

Re: Help with Bar's Stop Leak

that stuff is just a cover up for a problem that should be fixed right the first place.

it just delays the problem until it gets so bad it wont work anymore.

IMO if i were you, i would fix it right the first time imstead of playing around with that stuff.

my friend has a leak in his rad and used that, he has to add more of it all of the time because it only fixes the leak for a few months.

[OneEightSeven]

Re: Help with Bar's Stop Leak

Lol ya... bandaid at best. Intake mani is not that bad to fix.

[LETZRIDE]

Re: Help with Bar's Stop Leak

4-6 hour job with some beers...if you have no experience with cars, this is a great time to learn...get a buddy with some experience to help you out, and pick up the haynes manual for the torque specs and step by step...its not hard at all...

[techsan23]

Re: Help with Bar's Stop Leak

A friend of mine tried coolant system stop leak, and it ended up plugging up his heater core.

[landj]

Re: Help with Bar's Stop Leak

Barr's leak stop won't be a permanent fix, especially for a gasket leak. It does seal pinhole leaks very well. It's why GM recommends adding it (or thier own version of it) everytime the coolant is flushed.

that stuff is just a cover up for a problem that should be fixed right the first place.

it just delays the problem until it gets so bad it wont work anymore.

IMO if i were you, i would fix it right the first time imstead of playing around with that stuff.

[Mark42]

Re: Help with Bar's Stop Leak

Recently I discovered I had a intake gasket leak and it started to suck up air from outside.....

If its sucking air from outside, adding something to the antifreeze to block leaks probably won't work anyway. And as others have said, it tends to block heater cores, especially in older vehicles where there might be a little buildup to begin with.

JMO

[nascar24jd]

Re: Help with Bar's Stop Leak

You are in for real trouble now. That stuff will clog up your heater core, radiator, thermostat, and even stick to the water pump impeller.

Bad idea...

[eteamer]

Re: Help with Bar's Stop Leak

my 02' chev 350 had the dreaded disolving intake gasket leak too, about 4 years and almost 100,000 miles ago. Bars rules. Recomended by the chevy dealer. Or you could tear the top of your engine apart. Better have the beers first, just to think it over.

[Rob Bell]

Re: Help with Bar's Stop Leak

If it were my car I would fix it properly, rather than adding gunk to the cooling system.

[T-Mill]

Re: Help with Bar's Stop Leak

From my experience any quick fix will also lead to quick failure... There really aren't any quick fixes out there because no matter how effective the fix is, there are always drawbacks to not doing it properly... in this case, it's better to just fix it properly instead of using stop leak because even if it does stop your leak without clogging anything up, you never know when the leak will come back (and it will) and it's better to do the work now with the car in you driveway/garage instead of somewhere down the line when the car overheats on the side of the highway at 2 in the morning...