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Staging Lane
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Need Help Fast can some one please help me with this here is the deal i just bought this 25th anniversary trans am it has 76,000 miles on it but its been sitting up for about 5 years these are its symptoms smokes a little when accelerating posably becasue it needs a tune up but the main problem is it is getting extremely hot and gushing coolant out of the resevoir tank and i have bleeding it and and it still keeps gushing from the resevior and i have put a new thermastat in and the same thing still but it may have something to do with the little bit of smoke coming out of the pipes when accelerating please help me figure this one out its killing me thanks
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have you done a real good flush of the cooling system? my cadillac wasn't taken care of fer ****, and it needed mutiple flushes of EVERY fluid except the rear. The heat core was clogged, and the coolant was brown. I'm whilling to bet the radiator is pluged, or the fans have burnt out/switch burnt out. Flush it at a low PSI for awhile. keep pting the garden hose in different hose combos for the best flush. then run it till it gets warm, and do it again.
not sure about the smoke.
not sure about the smoke.
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Staging Lane
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the tank was pulled out and cleaned same with coolant system i just wonder if it is mabey a blown head gasket or intake gasket but the only thing is it will stay cool when driving but when stopped it will start to get hot until i move again and the fans are running so i dont know what do you think
Pull the themostat and see if it stays cooler It may not be in there anyway, then go get a fresh tstat at the same time ....
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Staging Lane
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but if the intake manifold has coolant passages through it iit could be letting air into the coolant system through the coolant passages and that coul be why the coolant is presurized and shooting out of the resevior tank also if you say the car will smoke blue is the blue smoke from fuel burning because the smoke comeing out smells like like its running to rich which al this leads me to thinking it may be the intake manifold gasket leaking please let me know what you think thanks
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so do you think i may have a blown head gasket becuase one thing i do know is my buddy was riding in his car behind me and i hamered down on the car and he said that it smoke more out of the drivers side pipe than the passenger side he said it barrley even smoke out of the passenger side is this a possible blown head gasket if so do yuo have some kind of step by step process that can show me all i need to know before breaking it down thanks please let me know what you think
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so do you think i may have a blown head gasket becuase one thing i do know is my buddy was riding in his car behind me and i hamered down on the car and he said that it smoke more out of the drivers side pipe than the passenger side he said it barrley even smoke out of the passenger side is this a possible blown head gasket if so do yuo have some kind of step by step process that can show me all i need to know before breaking it down thanks please let me know what you think
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the car has a single pipe exhaust on it the muffler splits it up to the tips. but if it was sitting up for so long the rad. could of had tap watter in it thus rusting th passage up which could not be cured by a flush you need some on with a infered red heat gun to check the rad. or take it to a rad shop and have it flow tested
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you said fans don't come on, it could be that the switch in the PCm burned out, or the fans burned out. Wire up a manual switch, or a temp ativated switch and see what happens.
Just bought it.... and you wanna sell? what gives?
Just bought it.... and you wanna sell? what gives?