Thread: I spoke too soon. A leak?

Of course, right after I post about how well my car has been running for its mileage, she shows me otherwise. Started smelling that sweet smell of burning coolant yesterday. I got home and didn't see any leaks or anything, so passed it off as the rest of the coolant burning off in the heat we've been having (90 degrees!) from when I spilled coolant during a flush.

I get about 5 minutes away from work this morning, getting off the highway, and notice my temp gauge slowly rise all the way to just below the red. I jacked up my heat and got nothing but cold air. Luckily I was only a 1/4 mile to the parking garage. I park the car, go to work for a few hours. After I was done, I filled the radiator with about 60oz of bottled water, start up and head home. Heat was working great, temps stayed normal. Car drove fine.

Got home and inspected a bit more. Found a small puddle of coolant deep in between the sc snout and the radiator. I can't think of what this could be from. I checked the nearby hoses and the (visible) coolant elbow and they were all dry. Water pump doesn't seem to be wet either. Any ideas where the leak could be from before I take it apart? I have a feeling it might be the second coolant elbow, but I'm not sure.

I had a feeling it was probably the stinking elbows. I changed them last summer on the side of I-90 in the middle of a thunderstorm.

http://www.grandprixforums.net/pinki...eak-78511.html

I would look into replacing both. There are aluminum replacements now but not 100% on how much better they are, still some issues with breakage.

Sucks. I'll get metal ones this time. At least I've done it before so I know what I'm in for. Hopefully this is the last time.

Changed them out this morning with metal ones. So far so good. One of them was cracked instead the hole, so I imagine that was the cause, unless of course I cracked it will removing it. Metal ones fit right in!