Adam Pruden
New member
- Joined
- Dec 21, 2013
- Messages
- 2
- Reaction score
- 0
- Points
- 0
2001 Pontiac Grand Am SE 3.4.
I was having problems with my cooling system so I changed out my water pump and conducted maintenance on the thermostat. By maintenance I mean I took the thermostat out and made sure it was in working order. It worked fine for about 5 days and then I lost heat in the driving compartment and my fluid was pouring out of the overflow until there was none left in the reservoir. I flushed the heating core, started it up and still nothing. I let the car cool back down, then I hooked up a hand pump to the over flow hose and pushed new fluid back into the system. I loosened up the bleeder to allow air out of the system while I was pumping and saw that the air in the system had been pushed out so that there was a consistent flow of fluid coming out of the bleeder then I closed the bleeder and unhooked the pump. I started the car and I was getting heat for about 2 minutes. But then the car started idling at about 2.5K RPMs, and I watched as the overflow pushed out the bulk of my coolant. I also noticed that my radiator fans weren't working and there was a lot of steam/smoke coming from under the engine block. I am hoping that the smoke is from the radiator fluid that had sprayed onto the engine but the block wasn't even hot enough to evaporate the little bit of rain that was on the block. I don't know what else to do! Help please.
I was having problems with my cooling system so I changed out my water pump and conducted maintenance on the thermostat. By maintenance I mean I took the thermostat out and made sure it was in working order. It worked fine for about 5 days and then I lost heat in the driving compartment and my fluid was pouring out of the overflow until there was none left in the reservoir. I flushed the heating core, started it up and still nothing. I let the car cool back down, then I hooked up a hand pump to the over flow hose and pushed new fluid back into the system. I loosened up the bleeder to allow air out of the system while I was pumping and saw that the air in the system had been pushed out so that there was a consistent flow of fluid coming out of the bleeder then I closed the bleeder and unhooked the pump. I started the car and I was getting heat for about 2 minutes. But then the car started idling at about 2.5K RPMs, and I watched as the overflow pushed out the bulk of my coolant. I also noticed that my radiator fans weren't working and there was a lot of steam/smoke coming from under the engine block. I am hoping that the smoke is from the radiator fluid that had sprayed onto the engine but the block wasn't even hot enough to evaporate the little bit of rain that was on the block. I don't know what else to do! Help please.
