y am i still leaking!>?????Somebody please shoot me and help me bury my 2.......

[mr2v63vz]

im so siiiickkkk of fixing my car....
the other day i was doing a nice new set of plugs and wires (the first thing i wanted to spend money on in awhile) and i noticed a ton of coolant pouring out the front of my car....sigh so i go look and it looks like a hose , i just replaced the radiator , i just finished putting her back together after a nice little accident with a telephone pole on the drivers side.... so i go out and but two replacement hoses and there too big so i go back the next monrning and get a new hose and get it to stop leaking...finnally back to plugs and wires....starts leaking again this time out a small pinhole out the side of the radiator i just replaced....sigh so a little of jb waterweld and now she stops leaking....untill now . Its leaking from here



kind of hard to get a good pic of where it is but its directly under the spare tire, at least thats where its dripping.....im also overheating and quickly....i have heat though , heater core better not be f*&% that , i dont know what it is whats a o2 heater??? because shes running lean (well at least throwing a code for lean) i think shes running rich idk im so close to selling my v6 mr2 for a stock turbo so i can just get in nd drive it.....please help
o and what the hell is this rubber bushing for i popped it out and there were leaves inside!

[mr2v63vz]

o and that jb weld waterweld is where its dripping from

[mr2v63vz]

o yea and for whatever reason my fan corroded in the center and fell off... and my timing belt is touching the sourounding ..when will it end

[grizzy225]

ooooh darn that sucks chris

bad idea to let that bad boy leak, i freak out about that stuff


good luck with it

[mr2v63vz]

i just cant win...i hate coolant it never stays in any of my cars...

[grizzy225]

it just has a pinhole size hole and its over heating? what else imma run it by one of the techs at work tomorrow...

but i need details

[mr2v63vz]

ha thank you
well the holes no longer a problem i fixed it but then realized it was leaking from the bottom of the car pretty much directly uner the spare tire (where the putty is in the pictures) i have no idea where its coming from i know the heater cores up there somewhere i dread to think im gonna have to replace one of those i mean i did get into accident maybe something got crushed..? idk also my temp gauge isnt working but the car is heating up quick..like real quick i also have a code for it running lean i wonder if these problems are caused by the same thing?

[grizzy225]

he said make sure ur thermostat is good(not stuck?), make sure you have no leaks in the radiator...

your heater core wouldnt cause your car to overheat but being low on coolant and or one of the above would...

i dunno he also mentioned headgasket and other goodies like making sure you bleed the system properly... that you dont want to get into lolol

i doubt this helps... wish you lived closer the tech would probably help you out on the side

[mr2v63vz]

thanks for asking it turned out o be a mixture of stupid things first a leaky hose then th radiator . Then there were air pockets stuck in the radiator causing coolant to not make it back to the motor and then not enough antifreeze in the mixture. So I'm good now but my car still has. Fuel prob I'm thinking o2 sensor
Thanks for your help!

[mr2v63vz]

Thanks. Turned out too be a few things air pockets in the radiator not letting coolant to the motor..rad /hose leaks so I rebled the system and it seems fine its no longer over heating nor leaking now on to my fuel problem... Thanks for all your help!

[Archidamus-R]

Man that sucks. But don't give up! 2s don't die!

[mr2v63vz]

O trust me when I say I'm not a quitter I've saved this particular more times them I wanna remember....

[PinkTaco]

Originally Posted by grizzy225

he said make sure ur thermostat is good(not stuck?), make sure you have no leaks in the radiator...

your heater core wouldnt cause your car to overheat but being low on coolant and or one of the above would...

i dunno he also mentioned headgasket and other goodies like making sure you bleed the system properly... that you dont want to get into lolol

i doubt this helps... wish you lived closer the tech would probably help you out on the side

A clogged heater core will over heat a car its like a stuck closed thermostat and if it over heats your putting more pressure in a system thats already pressurized causing gaskets to blow and more leaks to occur id check that thermostat of yours

[CJMR2T]

Originally Posted by PinkTaco

A clogged heater core will over heat a car its like a stuck closed thermostat and if it over heats your putting more pressure in a system thats already pressurized causing gaskets to blow and more leaks to occur id check that thermostat of yours

Ummmmm WHAT????? I'd like to hear a logical explaination for this one!!!!!

How could a clogged heater core cause an engine to over heat????

Ummm, do you even understand how the heater control valve works?? Im guessing not based on you statement of a clogged heater core causing an engine to overheat.

Just so you know, the heater control valve stops coolent from flowing though the heater core (same thing as a clog would do).... So if a clog would cause the engine to overheat, so would a heater control valve when it was closed (basically any time the temp level slider was all the way to the cold side on the climate control unit in the dash)....

[PinkTaco]

Originally Posted by CJMR2T

Ummmmm WHAT????? I'd like to hear a logical explaination for this one!!!!!

How could a clogged heater core cause an engine to over heat????

Ummm, do you even understand how the heater control valve works?? Im guessing not based on you statement of a clogged heater core causing an engine to overheat.

Just so you know, the heater control valve stops coolent from flowing though the heater core (same thing as a clog would do).... So if a clog would cause the engine to overheat, so would a heater control valve when it was closed (basically any time the temp level slider was all the way to the cold side on the climate control unit in the dash)....

Yes ive had ford and a chevy that came into my shop with clogged heater cores they were over pressurizing the system blowing out water pump gaskets, hoses, thermostat gaskets and hell on the chevy 3.4 blew out the intake gasket (hence a very common problem with the chevys) anyways took awhile to figure out that YES a clogged heater core can over heat your cooling system.

[CJMR2T]

Originally Posted by PinkTaco

Yes ive had ford and a chevy that came into my shop with clogged heater cores they were over pressurizing the system blowing out water pump gaskets, hoses, thermostat gaskets and hell on the chevy 3.4 blew out the intake gasket (hence a very common problem with the chevys) anyways took awhile to figure out that YES a clogged heater core can over heat your cooling system.

That is impossible... no if's and's or but's about it... Plain and simple, the heater control valve stops flow to the heater core just as a blockage in the heater core would... I've owned plenty of chevy's in my life time and a few fords and have worked on many of them.. I have never heard of a clogged heater core causing a overheating problem. Like I said, it cant and if it could, then so would the heater control valve... All a heater core is is a second radiator...

So I guess your gonna try to tell me that the radiator cap does not control the system pressure too!!!!!!!

Poor connection and poorly prep'd gasket surfaces are what cause gasket failure.. I typical radiator core itself can not handle as much pressure as a properly done connection interface using a gasket and thus would blow the radiator apart before you would blow a gasket out.. You do realize that many gasketed connection for oil use the same type of gasket as the cooling system and they are under a hell of a lot more pressure then the cooling system would ever see and yet they dont blow...

Here's another example that proves your comments wrong... All those gaskets that you mented blowing are the same connections and gaskets used on NASCAR engine, ford and chevy powered GT1 cars, Late model modifieds and so on and they run much higher pressures then your typical street engine with out blowing them.. Typical street pressure is either 13 or 16psi. Most race engines anywhere from 22 to 28psi and they dont seem to blow...

Its info like you are trying to post is what brings bad to the internet... I've given proof, facts and example of how what you are trying to say is not nor can not be true... Show me logical proof of how a clogged heater core can cause an engine to over heat let alone over heat enough to cause that much of a pressure rise in the system to blow gaskets and hoses...

Here's another example, that same gasket that seals the waterpump and or thermostat is the same material and such that is typically used to seal a throttle body to the intake or even the intake to the head and yet you can throw 30psi of boost into it without a leak let alone actually blow it out...

[mr2181]

cj is correct,stopped up heater core just dosnt allow coolant to flow through for a heat exchange, therefore no heat in the car, just go to a tech and let them pressure test the system..@15-18 psi, you should hear or see where the leak is: or hopefully you can..if not prolly a head gasket..boo

[MR-3sgte]

Originally Posted by CJMR2T

Here's another example, that same gasket that seals the waterpump and or thermostat is the same material and such that is typically used to seal a throttle body to the intake or even the intake to the head and yet you can throw 30psi of boost into it without a leak let alone actually blow it out...

Not true my OEM toyota gaskets i bought for my tb and intake and tvis plate gaskets were made of metal completely different from my water pump gasket thats probably made from neoprene.

[MR-3sgte]

Originally Posted by mr2181

cj is correct,stopped up heater core just dosnt allow coolant to flow through for a heat exchange, therefore no heat in the car, just go to a tech and let them pressure test the system..@15-18 psi, you should hear or see where the leak is: or hopefully you can..if not prolly a head gasket..boo

Or a leak in the turbo because our turbos are cooled by coolant i know mine leaks and it wont loose any pressure when i hook my tester up to my coolant system hence the new headgasket and freshly planned head i put on recently.

[MR-3sgte]

Originally Posted by PinkTaco

A clogged heater core will over heat a car its like a stuck closed thermostat and if it over heats your putting more pressure in a system thats already pressurized causing gaskets to blow and more leaks to occur id check that thermostat of yours

ok im done on this thread lol.