Something Leaking

[GhostRider33763]

Ok SHO guru's. I hope this is not a stupid questions but let me ask. I haven't driven my SHO for about a week and half and have noticed a puddle of something underneath the car. The parking spot was bone dry when I parked the car a while back. Now I notice there is some kind of leak under the front left side of the car. There really isn't a color but it's very sticky. Let me remind you I haven't driven the car in over a week now(need to replace the control arms(I think that's what they are) and pipe for the exhaust. A few of my plug wells are full of oil and need to be changed(I plan to change in the next few weeks). However, does anyone have any ideas to what can be leaking without driving the car.

 

[Blast7]

Does it smell sweet like coolant? If it smells somewhat like a burnt smell it could be transmission fluid.

 

[sdpatt]

No color? There are no liquids in the SHO that don't have any color except battery acid. Put a white paper towel on the puddle and either see what color liquid it absorbs or what drips onto it. By left, do you mean driver side?

 

[GhostRider33763]

Scott,
Indeed it is leaking from the drivers side. I will check it out with a paper towel and post my findings.

Thanks

 

[naval-avi8or]

Could someone put some clear oil/fluid in the tranny. I have an ATX so I don't know what all could be put in the MTX.

 

[Aaron]

You might try checking the radiator drain-off valve shown in the picture below. If it's loose, you may be bleeding off some coolant (some coolant without anti-freeze, in which case, you should put some in).

-Aaron

<small>[ June 07, 2002, 12:16 AM: Message edited by: Aaron ]</small>

 

[snowwind1990]

went looking through the original posts Ghostrider made in regards to his 1990.
Was this leak fixed.??
Coolant?
Transmission fluid?
which?
Trying to figure out what the newest problem with the CEL could be.
CCRM failing? Although at 12 years, miles don't matter as much.....how many miles on this '90?
Ma Ma M wink

<small>[ September 02, 2002, 01:36 PM: Message edited by: snowwind1990 ]</small>

 

[GhostRider33763]

Snowwind. It's got 134,875 on the clock. I fixed the coolant leak a couple of weeks back. It was the bypass hose that's right by Oil filter that had a split in the side of it. It was a PITA because one of the clamps broke. This time I used the screw type hose clamps. I used to throw the CEL at WOT before I changed the leaky hose. I suspect that at WOT the leaky hose had more pressure in it causing it to throw coolant over the O2 sensor down there. I will drive the car around for a bit and recheck the codes.

 

[shojuan]

GhostRider33763:
Snowwind. It's got 134,875 on the clock. I fixed the coolant leak a couple of weeks back. It was the bypass hose that's right by Oil filter that had a split in the side of it. It was a PITA because one of the clamps broke. This time I used the screw type hose clamps. I used to throw the CEL at WOT before I changed the leaky hose. I suspect that at WOT the leaky hose had more pressure in it causing it to throw coolant over the O2 sensor down there. I will drive the car around for a bit and recheck the codes.

Those spring clamps are the devil. A close second to the evil one way clamps used on the heater hoses. I also broke one of those clamps while trying to rotate the ears around for better access yesterday. The ears got all bent so I couldn't unclamp it. Out comes the cooling fan and in goes the dremel cutoff wheel. It was one of those moments where something wrong was going to happen while finishing a job (past experiences: bolts sheered off on themostat water housing. Themostat water housing splits in half. more bolts sheering off or heads stripping) so I took my time to cut it off. Didn't want to dremel into the metal pipe and experience that pain.

Thumbs down to spring clamps that are only easy to access with the engine out on the assembly line at the factory. And what is up with those evil one-way clamps at the firewall? I had never seen those before the SHO.

Rick

 

[snowwind1990]

There could be a connection to the CEL problems now...glad it wasn't the heater hose!
Ma Ma M