Ferendon
New Member
This is making me mad. Gradual coolant loss for the last couple months. After a high rev run, I parked my car, and smoke was bellowing out. Smelled strictly of coolant, and I was it running down the side of the engine along the side of the waterpump, and down onto the pulleys to subframe, to ground. I got underneath to make sure it was just coolant. But low and behold, I see "smoking" drops hitting the ground. The coolant was dripping normally (the coolant's not the problem). But the smoking drops where dopping every few seconds and very irratically. They left and trail of white smoke behind them. I was thinking maybe it was coolant running off the cat... Like it had been on the side of the engine for a second, cooled a little and hit the cat and burned up as it hit the ground. Well today on my way to school, I started running hot. It got up to the top of the "N", and then cooled down to about the top to middle of "O". Then it ran back up to "N" again. But it never actually got above "N" completely. Well, when I got here, I popped my hood, and heard what sounded like a shaken soda being opened slowly from the passengers side of the engine, kinda like it was below the crossover tube. I pulled the red tab on the radiator cap and bled off the pressure, and as the pressure released, the sound quieted.... When the pressure was bled off the noise was completely gone. I was already planning on replacing the gaskets in my water pump, seeing as how there was coolant coming from the water top or side of the pump, like a bad gasket would do. But do you think maybe the t-stat is not opening properly and caused too much pressure on something? I'm not to clear on the technical stuff on how the cooling system works... Any input would be greatly appreciated, as this is my daily driver. I have tomorrow off, and I'll be working on it.
