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Old May 21, 2009 | 11:24 PM
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so ive had my 1994 camaro Z28 for maybe two months if not a little more. never has it given me any problems (i would say that i know the basic mechanics of cars), but recently it started to over heat really fast once i start to drive it. its gotten so bad that i believe it has actually damaged my abs sensor and cut off my turn signals as well..they dont work at all (even on the dash). my friends dad knows a couple profesional as well as "back yard"mechanics and they all said the thermostat. i changed that, my air filter, and did an oil change...still overheats. at firt i thought maybe it was that my injectors were burning out and it wasnt running properly. The guy i bought it from had installed aftermarket injectors and never got around to putting in a 58mm throttle body to add more air to it.

any help on what could be going wrong? i want to get her back on the road running smoothly
 

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Old May 22, 2009 | 01:11 AM
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did u flush the cooling system? are the fans coming on? how did the coolant look when u changed the thermostat? how did the oil look? what color? when u changed the thermo, after filling it with coolant did u bleed the air out of the system. are u leaking coolant? for the lights have u checked the fuses both by the driver door and under the hood?
 
Old May 22, 2009 | 07:29 AM
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take off the oil cap and check to see if your oil looks like mud. that's a blown head gasket. check the fuses for your ABS and turn signals, then finally get under the car and look at the block on both sides. if there's coolant running down it then that would also be a blown head gasket. after you've looked at all that, as well as what he said ^^^ get back to us.
 
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