Check out the many leaks my car has!!
10-27-2010, 11:13 PM
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Check out the many leaks my car has!! Noticed how bad the leaks really were after i jacked it up and saw stains on my garage floor. I am scared of the green fluid. I was hoping it was freon, but i'm sure its coolant. These leaks were spotted after putting on my lowering springs. car hasn't been ran for a couple of weeks now. still having the same issues from my older threads. Here are my pics (sorry, it's a camera phone)
10-28-2010, 07:54 AM
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Head gasket?? LS1's don't normally leak anything..
Well, the coolant leaks dripping onto your AC compressor MAY be from either the heater hoses or the rad hose coming out of the water pump. Aluminum is notorious for corrosion so this can cause a leak. Check under neath the heater hoses at the connection to see if they're wet/leaking. There is also a slim chance that the fluid on teh AC Compressor MAY be AC oil (Ester oil?).. does your AC work? If it doesn't work, you found your leak. But it would have to be a serious leak for it to drip all of the oil out of the system. And the refrigerant doesn't drip. It's a gas put into a liquid state through pressure drops and raises in the system. R-134a, BTW. If you have an AC leak, you won't really notice other than the system not working.
Can you resize the pics? imageshack.us . resize to ~ 640x480. Easier to see ..
No idea as far as the oil.. Gotta trace it up the block to find where it's coming from. And you know you're missing a bell housing bolt too, right?
Well, the coolant leaks dripping onto your AC compressor MAY be from either the heater hoses or the rad hose coming out of the water pump. Aluminum is notorious for corrosion so this can cause a leak. Check under neath the heater hoses at the connection to see if they're wet/leaking. There is also a slim chance that the fluid on teh AC Compressor MAY be AC oil (Ester oil?).. does your AC work? If it doesn't work, you found your leak. But it would have to be a serious leak for it to drip all of the oil out of the system. And the refrigerant doesn't drip. It's a gas put into a liquid state through pressure drops and raises in the system. R-134a, BTW. If you have an AC leak, you won't really notice other than the system not working.
Can you resize the pics? imageshack.us . resize to ~ 640x480. Easier to see ..
No idea as far as the oil.. Gotta trace it up the block to find where it's coming from. And you know you're missing a bell housing bolt too, right?
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10-28-2010, 09:36 PM
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lol, yeah i noticed the bolt missing so that just added to my frustration. My a/c doesn't work. I filled the hell out of it with freon. I don't ever remember seeing "green" fluid leaking though. I recharged it in July. I will get the leakdown started. I don't know if anyone else noticed, but I am also leaking tranny fluid too. The bolt on the left has a drip under it. I thought i took a pic of the dried pool it left over the month. I'm scared to drive it. I just got that rebuilt tranny.
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10-28-2010, 09:54 PM
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if it is leaking primarily between the back of the motor and the bell housing of the tranny, you have a rear main seal leak, in which you will have to remove the tranny to get to itl but its really ok unless you have to add oil all the time... 95% of the cars that i work on have some sort of oil leak. Although mine has 109 thousand and not a single bit of wetness. but that is because im ****.... First thing to do is to clean the entire motor, top to bottom, then drive it until it gets hot, and get under it and find the leak(s).
