Water pumps and bubbling engines, I am at a total loss...
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Water pumps and bubbling engines, I am at a total loss...
Okay, replaced the head gasket with steel units, had the heads checked for being warped and I still get bubbles in the radiator!? not a lot, but, a few. It only seems to bubble at idle? If I giv it gas and rev it up and hold it, no bubbles appear, so I can tell so far.
How many waterpumps fit the camaro engine, including its hoses? I am thinking that maybe I have a wrong pump, or, its spinning backwards? Maybe it is just plain bad?? I wonder if it is not pumping correctly for some reason and producing a hot spot? Thermostat housing reads 155 degrees, but, that CANT be the correct. Maybe there is a localized hotspot boiling.......somewhere.....from a defective pump!?
I cant think of why in the world I would be getting bubbles if the heads check out okay, and, there were no traces of headgasket leakage on the deck of the engine. I would think that there would have been a tell tail trail somewhere if exhause gasses were slipping by?
How many waterpumps fit the camaro engine, including its hoses? I am thinking that maybe I have a wrong pump, or, its spinning backwards? Maybe it is just plain bad?? I wonder if it is not pumping correctly for some reason and producing a hot spot? Thermostat housing reads 155 degrees, but, that CANT be the correct. Maybe there is a localized hotspot boiling.......somewhere.....from a defective pump!?
I cant think of why in the world I would be getting bubbles if the heads check out okay, and, there were no traces of headgasket leakage on the deck of the engine. I would think that there would have been a tell tail trail somewhere if exhause gasses were slipping by?
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Originally Posted by csmc711
Okay, replaced the head gasket with steel units,
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steel head gaskets are crap on aluminum heads you need to coat the with some cooper seal or get some good felpros you have a leak between two cylinders pressurizing your coolant system. Put two cubes of bars stop leak in it might do the trick gm put it in from the factory
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Thanks for the input. I checked the coolant last night and the radiator was real low. I then filled it ip, ran it some more and turned it off, I noticed it was boiling? I checked it this morning and sure enough it was real low again. Whatever the problem is, I do not think bars leak is going to fix this one, but, thanks for the tip.