Hi All,

Few tips would be helpful....Last night i noticed that the coolant start to leak under the car....Today i looked under the car and it looks like its coming for the pulley area...There is a coolant hoes the comes down by the pulley....all that area was covered with coolant...Do you guys think I can do somethng about it myself or is it a mechanic special only...I beleive i need to take off the passanger side front wheel def....i have a 95' auto

 

its pulley!!! lol as far as that coolant goes is it leaking from the resevior, i would check that first. also check to see if you hear a hissing when it gets warmed up when you have the engine running, or if more coolant comes out when its running. it may be a pressure crack on the hoses.

 

HAhahah...when i start the car, no much leaking just drops..once i shut it off, then soon after starts to pour...and stop within 5 min

 

thats a tricky one what i would do is drive around let it warm up, then turn it off and see if you can see where it is coming from? i would think that normally under pressure it would leak more then after you turn off the engine lol...try that and see if you can figure out where the leak is from. if not ill crawl the interwebz and see if i cant pull up some reasons for yeah.

 

Thanks alot, really helpful

 

searched the webz it could be the water pump? or your overflow resevior tank has a crack in it, or you have a small crack in your radiator that swells shut under pressure and leaks when cooling, also could be small hole inthe hoses...hope that helps keep us informed

 

thanks for the webz...this gives me a starting point, and a SATURDAY morning project ....i dont think its the resevoir, checked that area first....im looking for pics on the engine assembly for that area, so i can point out better where i see the most coolanst build up...

 

tell you what i cant find any good pics either so ill go take some on my lunch and post them for you to look at

 

Sweet...Thanks

 

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Hopefully that will help

 

Could be water pump too. Check out this vid an org member did. Checkout his other videos too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibfs1Zu9h4o

 

cracked thermostat housing ?

 

just to confim, i brought the car to the mechanic...he said water pump....dilemma, he said it would be around $530 for the whole thing, 4 hours of labor....DAMN...what yu guys think?....or should I try this DIY

http://www.vqpower.com/v2/articles.php?article_id=68

I have 2 cars , so MAX is not the daily car so no rush no my end...BUT its a 1995 SE with 147K..is $530 worth it?????????

 

Just to give you an idea, I paid my mechanic to replace the water pump, wp gasket, thermostat, and 2 drive belts for $250 labor. Parts were about $50 if I remember correctly from Advance Auto. Took about 5 hours to finish.

 

follow the forums on here and a haynes manual...rely here the most lol, it isnt that hard i have done it on my old eclipse, but it should be decent...give yourself a whole saturday to do it though, just in case you get stuck somewhere and make sure you have a ride to the parts store if you break something lol. i always end up breaking something lol

 

530 is over way too much....ill prob take a saturday to do it myself....i did couple engine tunes...def one of my biggest here