Coolant Leak in the Camaro

GrandmaLS

GrandmaLS

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Brenna came back last night from making a beer run and her car was leaking coolant. Since it was so dark out we waited until today to check it out. I hooked up a pump and pressurized the system it is started leaking out the top passenger side of the water pump so I figured it needed a new gasket. Today I tore it apart and replaced the pump (might as well if you already have the old one off) and gasket. Take the car for a test drive and it starts pissing out coolant. There is a big bracket for the alternator so I can't see if its leaking out the side of the head (maybe a freezeplug/threaded plug) or the head gasket is bad. The edge of the waterpump and the block/head surface are so close it seemed to be the waterpump gasket. Any ideas?

Sometime in the cars history someone put stop leak in there. Could it be possible for a big chunk of that to break loose, plug a passage, create a coolant surge and blow a gasket?

1994 Camaro RS 3.4L
 
can you pressurize the system again and check for leaks? your probly gonna have to tear shit apart to look for the leak.
 
60* V6's are known for blowing intake gaskets. My sis has a beretta w/ a 3100 in it w/ almost 300k on the clock, things runs like a top, but almost every 50k like clock work it would need intake gaskets. GM finally released a revised gasket that is supposed to finally cure the problem, I guess we will have to wait ans see
 
yeah, probably going to be the intake gaskets, if it was a newer one with the 3.8, i'd say it was the coolant elbow to the tensioner, but, since its the 3.4................



and make sure to use the felpro permadry plus gaskets(IIRC), well, just make sure the gasket is metal with rubber bonded to it, not the plastic ones
 
They don't makes those for the iron heade 3.4 as far as I know. sounds like a coolant leak






dave89iroc said:
yeah, probably going to be the intake gaskets, if it was a newer one with the 3.8, i'd say it was the coolant elbow to the tensioner, but, since its the 3.4................



and make sure to use the felpro permadry plus gaskets(IIRC), well, just make sure the gasket is metal with rubber bonded to it, not the plastic ones
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Sean said:
They don't makes those for the iron heade 3.4 as far as I know. sounds like a coolant leak
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I know its a coolant leak! You mean intake leak? :roll:

I know alot of the time you have to replace the intake on the 3.8 (I know its plastic and that's probably why) but I should be straight with just doing gaskets right?
 
FYI JIC its the 3.1/3.4 Aluminum Headed 96-05

the 4.3 90* v6 from 96-05

the 5.0 and 5.7 vortecs from 96-01

Could be a model year or 2 up and down. Some of the express vans had 4.3 and 5.0 and 5.7 engines a few years later i think.

those are the only ones they make at the moment. I would assume here in the near future the 3.8 series 2 engines will be brought in.

Sean

dave89iroc said:
that sucks, they have them for the 4.3
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Sean said:
FYI JIC its the 3.1/3.4 Aluminum Headed 96-05

the 4.3 90* v6 from 96-05

the 5.0 and 5.7 vortecs from 96-01

Could be a model year or 2 up and down. Some of the express vans had 4.3 and 5.0 and 5.7 engines a few years later i think.

those are the only ones they make at the moment. I would assume here in the near future the 3.8 series 2 engines will be brought in.

Sean
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correct, I have a 5.7 from a 02 Express van
 
Now here is a question..... if the intake gaskets went bad would that cause the oil to drop down? It's pretty low but I can't see any coolant in the oil or see the oily haze in the coolant. I changed it last weekend and it was spot on
 
1BADAIR said:
they also leak oil
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It just freaked me out because the engine is pretty clean. a week ago the engine was spotless and it is covered in coolant, not oil. I just wasn't sure where the hell it went. It's magical I guess....Like it was involved in some kind of unicorn trickery
 
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