98 Jetta put 2 gallons of antifreeze in drove for not even 2 min and antifreeze was gone There was no pool of it anywhere could it have been a big air bubble Help?

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Possibly blown head gasket. hows the heat in the cabin area check the heater core just changed the heater core in my '96 Jetta and was a total pain, but before it had to be changed it had the same syptoms. check the oil, if it looks milky than it's probably a head gasket, but that shouldn't cause the car to lose that much fluid so quickly. You pumped two gallons of coolant out of your engine in two minutes? Wow! This sounds like you have either a broken top coolant hose or broken heater hose that allowed the coolant to spray out, you left the radiator cap off or didn't tighten it good, or you have a cracked block. I don't think it's a blown head gasket at THAT rate of loss--you could put the engine together without a head gasket at all and not lose a gallon a minute. (Besides, he--used for ease of typing only--didn't report huge billowing clouds of smoke coming out the back of his car. Dumping a gallon of coolant a minute into the cylinders would make bystanders think the car was on fire.) I also don't think it's a heater core, because he didn't report wet feet. If you were to lose two gallons of coolant through a leak in your heater core, it would go SOMEWHERE--all over the carpet, your feet, your stereo... Easiest thing first: pop the hood and try to turn the radiator cap. If it comes off too easy, or if it's not there at all (because you just set it on there and it flew off when the system started pumping, and it's on the street somewhere getting run over by other people's cars), that's your problem. This probably IS your problem. If you have a radiator cap, next check your oil. What does it look like? If it looks like mayonnaise...well, you're screwed. Mayonnaise like you get at the supermarket is oil beaten into eggs. It's called an emulsion. You can do the same thing by pouring water, or coolant, into your engine and running it. Eventually the two will combine, and they'll form Castrol Mayonnaise. If you've GOT Castrol Mayonnaise in your engine, you've got two gallons of coolant in exactly the last place you want it--your oil pan. But if you don't have mayo, your radiator cap's tight and there's not a huge puddle of coolant on your carpet, but your whole underhood area is covered with coolant, you get to figure out which hose is leaking. Get out your trouble light. Fill your radiator with water and start your engine. Use the trouble light to look at every hose. One or more of them will be spraying water all over the place. Shut down and change it. Refill, restart and reinspect until you find all the leaky hoses--like rattlesnakes, they come in pairs.