I am going to give you guys some background info first, then explain my problem, then Ill post pictures. Ok so it all started when I moved up to houston. After I had made the trip I noticed that I had a ton of black sut on the back of my bumper. I have never had this happen before. I figure I was just running a little rich or I had maybe burned something out of my cats. No biggie. I was driving yesterday and I decided to get on it a bit and when I did I managed to blow off one of my fuel lines. So, I put the fuel line back on and drove home for the night very carefully. So this morning I go out to my car to resecure the fuel line I had blown off last night. I get out and I see coolant under my car. So, I proceed to secure the fuel line with zip ties (till i can find some c-clamps). This is where I start looking around for a cooland leak. I find where it might be leaking but that doesn't explain how the cooland is way up high on my block and in back of the block. The line I saw is probably leaking but not the cause of the rest of the leak. I then jacked up my car and looked as good as I could to find it but to no avail. So, I took pictures at all the places I saw it leaking. After this, I proceed to check my oil to make sure its not low. Well it is. And im not sure how low yet. I know i used half a quart of oil and didn't get it back up to the line. (thats all i have until i go to the auto parts store). So now here I am. I am leaking coolant from somewhere (probably a gasket of some sort). Not a whole lot but definately leaking. I am either burning oil or something because now I am low on oil. I have never burned any oil in the past until now. (i realize i have burned a little but not enough to warrant adding more in between oil changes) So here are the pictures. Guys, help me out here so I can figure out how to get my car up and running right again. Im hoping I don't have a blown head gasket. Any ideas. Below are the pictures.
is the coolant in the radiator oily, fill it up if you have to and run it a bit. do you have any codes, does it smoke a puff of bluish smoke on startup and hard accells. i need to know all of this. how does it run, normal?. since you are in houston, i have a 95 3.8 engine if yours is cracked or whatnot. it needs a rod bearing and probably needs to have the crank turned. it was a fresh rebuild but a rod bearing went so i put a new motor in it and broke a bolt,then it went to the mechanics to have the bolt drilled and they left a rag under the intake so the balance chaft shredded it and clogged the oil passages so they said maybe the oil pump went out and they told me to load the 95 engine up and bring it to them to swap parts and they left it outside and got water in the cylinders so the pistons need to be taken out to hone the cylinders again. i just want 75. i am going to a swap meet tomorrow at delmar stadium so it will be with me. later
car actually runs great...ive gotten the best gas mileage since I moved to dallas. Btw, I moved to dallas...lol. No smoke comes out on start up. The car ended up being half a quart low. It doesn't seem to be leaking constantly so Im kind of clueless here. I have no codes as of yet.
Well I ran out of bandwith so the picks are gone. Im thinking maybe the fuel just got on some dried up coolant so it may have turned the coolant green. That would explain the fact that im not leaking coolant now. But the quart and a half of oil I burned is still yet to be explained.
