Water leak
#1
06-20-2008, 08:33 AM
Water leak
Hi there,
I am new to this forum. I live in Germany have a 86 IROC-Z (red with black interior) which was bought by my dad brand new. It is completly original, has never seen rain or snow was always garaged and has 32,000 miles on it.
Since the last years it was driven 4-5 times per year, in May I took it for a spin and found that there was radiator coolant runing into the passenger side, I then replaced the heater core (you could see that the original one was broke on the side).
After having everything back in place I started the motor, it took maybe one minute and I saw water runing out from underneath the car close to the exhaust pipe. I placed the car on a lift and while the motor is runing you can see that there is radiator coolant coming from the top collecting on the transmission and then running down. My problem is that there is hardly no possibility to look behind the motor to see if a hose is broken or if there are freez plugs on the back that could have a problem, by looking with a flash light through the transmission tunnel it looked like there were drops of coolant collecting close to the distributor right below the intake manifold.
Is there anybody out there that had / has a similar problem? Any comments, help would be greatly appreciated.
Best regards
jeffgixxer1100
I am new to this forum. I live in Germany have a 86 IROC-Z (red with black interior) which was bought by my dad brand new. It is completly original, has never seen rain or snow was always garaged and has 32,000 miles on it.
Since the last years it was driven 4-5 times per year, in May I took it for a spin and found that there was radiator coolant runing into the passenger side, I then replaced the heater core (you could see that the original one was broke on the side).
After having everything back in place I started the motor, it took maybe one minute and I saw water runing out from underneath the car close to the exhaust pipe. I placed the car on a lift and while the motor is runing you can see that there is radiator coolant coming from the top collecting on the transmission and then running down. My problem is that there is hardly no possibility to look behind the motor to see if a hose is broken or if there are freez plugs on the back that could have a problem, by looking with a flash light through the transmission tunnel it looked like there were drops of coolant collecting close to the distributor right below the intake manifold.
Is there anybody out there that had / has a similar problem? Any comments, help would be greatly appreciated.
Best regards
jeffgixxer1100
#3
06-20-2008, 08:38 AM
RE: Water leak
I thought of the intake as well, but the water is nearly pouring out, as if you open a garden hose, I checked both heater hoses, they are completly dry
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