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Arch! Help! :(
Well, yesterday I was backing my car out of the garage when it seemed to be acting pretty weird. It was a cold start, and it was acting like what reminds me of a cammed car... where it like rumbles and then gets quiet and then rumbles and gets quiet... kinda rough like. I blew it off figuring it was just because it was cold, and I still don't know if it's connected to this but anyway I was driving home today and I smelled antifreeze again (if y'all remember last summer that one pipe corroded and spewed antifreeze all over my engine bay) so I rushed home and popped the hood, sure enough it's all over on the passenger side of the engine but the driver's side is dry. Here's some pictures, got any clue?
http://www.meissenation.com/bad/bad%20005.jpg http://www.meissenation.com/bad/bad%20006.jpg It starts all the way towards the top of the engine... http://www.meissenation.com/bad/bad%20007.jpg Works it's way down the side of this... http://www.meissenation.com/bad/bad%20009.jpg http://www.meissenation.com/bad/bad%20010.jpg http://www.meissenation.com/bad/bad%20011.jpg and ends at the bottom... http://www.meissenation.com/bad/bad%20015.jpg |
t stat housing possibly try washing it all off with a good cleaner, then see where teh leak comes from right now you have splashing. The water pump may be going and locking up which might be your bad idle, hard to say without actually touching it, could also be the ignition getting wet
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it looks like the coolant leaked from the thermostat and got on the injector and maybe it shorted it out so thats why your idle is funky...
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my dad said it looks like the water pump, but he said normally they come out the front and in this case it must be comin out the back.. right now it's a small leak, if I top off the fluids, do you think it'll be driveable?
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as long as it stays full and the miss stops
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how much ya think it'd take to get it fixed if my dad and I do it ourselves?
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to replace the water pump? heh, its trickier than you think. the power steering pump needs to come off, which requires a power steering pump pulley removal tool (cool name, huh). so you gotta remove the power steering pump/ignition coil packs to get the pump off. the pump itself is around 50 bucks and the tool is like 10.
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hmmm... and I can imagine getting it fixed somewhere would be 200ish bucks...
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about that. its like a 2 or 3 hour job if you suck at this stuff. i did it in an hour and 15 minutes :D
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do you really need the tool, or can ya do it with some good ol' fasion prying and ****? :D
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don't pry unless you just want it in the trash it will bend
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i know at the autozones here you can rent almost any specialty tool like that. you pay the cost of the tool then if you return it undamaged you got all your money back so basically its free.
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hmm my dad's actually thinking about taking it somewhere to get it fixed, I think he's finally realizing his age is catching up with him lol
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yeah autozone will rent ya the tool. and no you cant pry it with pliers. you'll bed it and be fuct.
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Originally Posted by meissenation
hmm my dad's actually thinking about taking it somewhere to get it fixed, I think he's finally realizing his age is catching up with him lol
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