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"Ben in TN" <sea-doo@wolfplayer.us> wrote in message
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> My wife drives a 2000 Excursion with a little over 80k miles and recently
> I have smelled the sweet smell of anti-freeze just after it's started.
> Seems like I smell it more if it has sat and cooled for 30 minutes or so
> and when she restarts it the smell is pretty strong. It's not so
> noticeable at the exhaust pipe after it has been running for a short
> period. So I'm curious if any of you have gone through this and is the
> headgasket being blown the only possible cause? I checked the anti-freeze
> level the other day in the radiator and appeared to be full. So if it's
> burning anti-freeze it's not burning much. How much is this likely going
> to cost? Thanks much for the info in advance.
>
> Ben
>

Sounds like you have a pin hole leak in your heater core, which resides
inside the passenger compartment under the dash.
That is generally the only way that pretty strong smell of anti-freeze will
be in the passenger compartment with you...