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02-11-2013
About 2 months ago i realized my car was over heating. I noticed my coolant wlow. I added until it was full. A whole gallon later... it was full. Back to normal no over heating.
Well today i noticed my car was getting hot. Car wouldn't blow out heat when idling only cold air. When.i would accelerate the temp would go down. And the heat would blow again. So added another half a gallon of coolant, and that seemed to fill it. Anyone got any ideas on the problem?
02-11-2013
On the side where the serpentine belt is there's two coolant elbows that are extremely common to crack and or leak check those. Also make sure there's no radiator leaking.
02-11-2013
Probably would help if we knew what you drove. My guess is lower intake manifold gasket leaking or coolant elbows.
02-11-2013
Sorry thought i added that 04 gtp. . I checked the lines. Its not leaking anywhere
02-11-2013
Check ur oil...if its sludgie....then its ur LIMOriginally Posted by Jtg1551
02-11-2013
I'd say your lim gasket is leaking then if you have no noticeable leaking anywhere.
02-11-2013
with that much lost though wouldnt he have already thrown a bearing?
02-11-2013
No sludge either
02-11-2013
Im sure its the LIM gasket
02-11-2013
Park it somewhere dry and with it running look for drips or leaks.
02-11-2013
Notta damn thing
02-11-2013
Hmmmm...has there been an antifreeze smell inside of the car?
02-11-2013
No. It hasn't show. Any signs of anything until tonight. But i just filled it up again and filled tge resivior and just drove it and it never started to over heat, so i really don't know what to think
02-11-2013
Well the first thing is to find where the antifreeze is going...did u actually drain ur oil pan and look at it? Cause there's really only so many places that it can go
02-11-2013
I just changed my oil 2 weeks ago.
02-11-2013
Was it doing the vanishing antifreeze trick then as well?
02-11-2013
As we said before, its the intake gaskets. Its a super common issue.
A leaky intake gasket will just eat coolant untill it blows out completely and you get a awesome chocolate milkshake in your crankcase.
From what I read, you arent seeing a single drop anywhere, so where else can the coolant go beside being burned up in the cylinders.
02-12-2013
I have the exact same issue with my girl's 2005 NA minus the coolant loss.. I replaced the lower and upper intake plus the elbows. Before then, we had the engine tested with a dye to determine whether or not the heads were bad, but no issues.
Last edited by SlprGS; 02-12-2013 at 10:07 AM.
02-12-2013
Vanishing antifreeze trick? Care to explain?
02-12-2013
what engine do you have? n/a or s/c? if n/a the upper intake fails and the engine eats the coolant. or it leaks into the engine oil and KILLS the engine.
you have much reading to do grasshopper.
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