meissen

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?





It starts all the way towards the top of the engine...


Works it's way down the side of this...




and ends at the bottom...

archemedes

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

NoRiceInside

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...

meissen

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?

archemedes

as long as it stays full and the miss stops

meissen

how much ya think it'd take to get it fixed if my dad and I do it ourselves?

NoRiceInside

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.

meissen

hmmm... and I can imagine getting it fixed somewhere would be 200ish bucks...

NoRiceInside

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

meissen

do you really need the tool, or can ya do it with some good ol' fasion prying and ****?

archemedes

don't pry unless you just want it in the trash it will bend

69z-28

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.

meissen

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

NoRiceInside

yeah autozone will rent ya the tool. and no you cant pry it with pliers. you'll bed it and be fuct.

JesasaurusRex

do it urself, its easy stuff like this that you should start out with. Plus youll save money. But ur car ur decision.