New Water Pump and GREEN Coolant
Originally Posted by ChocoTaco369
so now i'm out 3 hours of labor, a new thermostat and like 4 gallons of wasted green coolant....
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Originally Posted by ChocoTaco369
well, my car's all screwed to hell.
i must have gotten a bad water pump or something because it won't stop overheating. replaced the thermostat, still overheating. i just spent the last hour at the shop watching my car beating the **** out of itself
according to the ODBII scanner, the temps saw 252*. seems a little excessive. at least it MIGHT be the pump.
so now i'm out 3 hours of labor, a new thermostat and like 4 gallons of wasted green coolant, and the car is in worse shape than when i brought it there. the car has never overheated before. all that was wrong was a slowly leaking water pump. now the car may as well be undrivable.
yay to my luck. someone's got it out for me today. while at the shop, a little panel with a screw on it fell out of the ceiling and came like 4 inches from konking me in the head. granted the thing weight half a pound, but it's out of principle. everything's fucked.
bah
i must have gotten a bad water pump or something because it won't stop overheating. replaced the thermostat, still overheating. i just spent the last hour at the shop watching my car beating the **** out of itself
according to the ODBII scanner, the temps saw 252*. seems a little excessive. at least it MIGHT be the pump.so now i'm out 3 hours of labor, a new thermostat and like 4 gallons of wasted green coolant, and the car is in worse shape than when i brought it there. the car has never overheated before. all that was wrong was a slowly leaking water pump. now the car may as well be undrivable.
yay to my luck. someone's got it out for me today. while at the shop, a little panel with a screw on it fell out of the ceiling and came like 4 inches from konking me in the head. granted the thing weight half a pound, but it's out of principle. everything's fucked.
bah
start trouble shooting- your fans turning on ?? all your fuses good? if your fans arent coming on it wont really matter how new your wp is, or how good your green fluid is..
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Originally Posted by TheBlurLS1
That's because it takes an act of congress to get the air out of these cooling systems sometimes. Temps will skyrocket and fall over and over again.
You just need to start it up cold with the cap off, stand next to it adding water a little at a time untill it's full. It may take a while, and the water may try to bubble out of the cap at times, but it's not full yet. I've found squeezing the radiator hose speeds this process. When it starts to come out of the cap, screw the cap on, then test the waters before removing it agian.
Don't beat yourself up (too much), if the pump was leaking from the weep hole, then it needs to be replaced.
You just need to start it up cold with the cap off, stand next to it adding water a little at a time untill it's full. It may take a while, and the water may try to bubble out of the cap at times, but it's not full yet. I've found squeezing the radiator hose speeds this process. When it starts to come out of the cap, screw the cap on, then test the waters before removing it agian.
Don't beat yourself up (too much), if the pump was leaking from the weep hole, then it needs to be replaced.
FWIW, i was switching to green because the guy's been egging me to. he had me convinced. he swaps nearly all his cars over to green. it seems A LOT of mechanics have a vendetta against dexcool. he just did a waterpump swap on an SS camaro and switched to green coolant - with 100% success and ease, of course. i get the shitty end of the stick.
Originally Posted by 00454sscamaro
i dont think its possible to have good luck taking anything to a plain old shop , reason i fix with everything myself.
start trouble shooting- your fans turning on ?? all your fuses good? if your fans arent coming on it wont really matter how new your wp is, or how good your green fluid is..
start trouble shooting- your fans turning on ?? all your fuses good? if your fans arent coming on it wont really matter how new your wp is, or how good your green fluid is..
i really don't care what coolant i use as long as my waterpump lasts a long time and i have no head gasket issues. i had a kid in my class who works on cars a lot tell me he's changed a car over to green before and sold it a few months later. a month after he sold it, the head gasket went bad. yea, that made me feel good
i've heard plenty of radio mechanics bash dexcool, also. i don't know what to think about coolant. i just don't want a bad head gasket or a bad water pump. i just want my car to WORK
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Originally Posted by GA/TA
I'm not a hundred percent positive on this but i was told one time that if you completely flush the system and put green in there its ok. Its when the 2 mix it creates that muddy **** and it can clog up everything.
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Originally Posted by greysteel_M6
Someone had evidentally put green coolant in my old 98 six banger bird, back when I began driving, it caught a leek and I put the dextrol in it. It wasn't long before that muddy **** built up clogged the radiator and eventually blew the engine. I think presone makes a new coolant that can add to either or.
ok your bottom line is "ice cold"... did you guys ever take out the radiator OR THE HOSE TO THE RADIATOR and check for blockage? are you getting fluid coming out of the vent lines on top of the heads?
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well, fixed the problem. turns out napa gave me a bad water pump. the casting itself was bad. one of the coolant holes was completely plugged up. you couldn't even blow air through them.
apparently this water pump issue is a BIG problem for f-bodies because the water pumps are on NATIONAL BACK ORDER. there are no water pumps available at ANY GM dealerships, even to order, around my area. we went back to napa and got ANOTHER pump. this one works, and all is well. switched to green coolant also. thanks to the pump screwing up, my system has also been flushed about 4 times completely, so all the dexcool is definitely out.
there's a problem. my engine is making a strange ticking sound. i've never heard this ticking sound before. it has me really scared, since the engine overheated a few times from the bad pump. now, the engine temp READ 253 degrees since the sensor is next to the exhaust manifold, but we measured the temp of the coolant coming out and it was about 200 degrees, and the engine block temperature was about 189* (he has a laser temperature reader). we shot the laser through the coolant hole right onto the head and it only read around 190*. but this ticking doesn't sound good. it's coming from the underside of the car. does this sound like the water pump? it's kind of like tapping a soda can with a pencil. i'm kinda nervous, i hope a valve spring didn't break or something due to the heat any ideas what would make a ticking noise from underneath the car after a water pump swap?
apparently this water pump issue is a BIG problem for f-bodies because the water pumps are on NATIONAL BACK ORDER. there are no water pumps available at ANY GM dealerships, even to order, around my area. we went back to napa and got ANOTHER pump. this one works, and all is well. switched to green coolant also. thanks to the pump screwing up, my system has also been flushed about 4 times completely, so all the dexcool is definitely out.
there's a problem. my engine is making a strange ticking sound. i've never heard this ticking sound before. it has me really scared, since the engine overheated a few times from the bad pump. now, the engine temp READ 253 degrees since the sensor is next to the exhaust manifold, but we measured the temp of the coolant coming out and it was about 200 degrees, and the engine block temperature was about 189* (he has a laser temperature reader). we shot the laser through the coolant hole right onto the head and it only read around 190*. but this ticking doesn't sound good. it's coming from the underside of the car. does this sound like the water pump? it's kind of like tapping a soda can with a pencil. i'm kinda nervous, i hope a valve spring didn't break or something due to the heat
any ideas what would make a ticking noise from underneath the car after a water pump swap? It's your car telling you to get that shitty coolant outta there 
You may think you have all the dexcool out but think about the heater core etc.
Every once and a while on really cold start's. I get lazy lifter tick.. it only lasts for a min or so until the lifter pumps up. It's expected out of a 124K mile motor though, just annoying at times..
You may think you have all the dexcool out but think about the heater core etc.Every once and a while on really cold start's. I get lazy lifter tick.. it only lasts for a min or so until the lifter pumps up. It's expected out of a 124K mile motor though, just annoying at times..
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Originally Posted by Camaroz
It's your car telling you to get that shitty coolant outta there You may think you have all the dexcool out but think about the heater core etc.
Every once and a while on really cold start's. I get lazy lifter tick.. it only lasts for a min or so until the lifter pumps up. It's expected out of a 124K mile motor though, just annoying at times..
You may think you have all the dexcool out but think about the heater core etc.Every once and a while on really cold start's. I get lazy lifter tick.. it only lasts for a min or so until the lifter pumps up. It's expected out of a 124K mile motor though, just annoying at times..
Originally Posted by ChocoTaco369
the car was red hot after a 10 mile drive. completely warmed up to normal operating temps. i'm lost.
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Originally Posted by Camaroz
Honestly, You shouldn't have let the car overheat AT ALL. As soon as you saw it start to run hotter than normal you should have turned it right off! You live and you learn... 1 of the things you learn this week is to NEVER overheat a aluminum block!
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Originally Posted by The1N_only
You may have spun a bearing