Well I have been losing coolant at a staggering rate for the last month or so. I thought I traced the leak to my lower intake manifold, which actually was leaking. I replaced that which was a major pain in the ***. I was still losing coolant afterward and I began losing it faster and faster. Well today while under the hood to get my fog lights working again, I got the drop light and scoped things out a bit. With the engine running I found the leak. The weep hole on the bottom of the water pump is just POURING water out the bottom. Well theres my leak I have been looking for. I could never find any puddles on the ground cause I never left it running in one spot for too long. Ill have to tear that out now. I need to replace my A/C compressor so since they are right next to each other, Ill just do them both at the same time. I guess ill be eating alot of ramen noodles for a while.

 

That sucks Matt...at least you can fix it yourself, so you won't have to pay the stinken shops hundreds in labor cost.

Enjoy all that Top Ramen. LOL JK :P

 

Is it hard on your DOHC?

 

That sux Matt.

The Chicken Ramen Noodles are REALLY good. LOL

 

Beef and Oriental are my faves

 

I prefer the beef Ramen noodles.

the water pump on my 06 SS went out on me not too long ago. $700.

Apparently the coolant they put in my car likes to turn to jelly. Flush a coolant system at 50k? Naaah, I never needed to on my old Pontiac (160k miles).

51k? $700 for a new pump.

 

You'll see we mention flushing every other year, even at 30k a few times... :P

 

In California, I wonder why they don't just fill them with 80% water.

 

I flush my Dexcool every 50K...The water pump on my 06 3.5L went out at 63K.

 

No not really. Its at the front of the engine bay so its not to burried. I have to remove the coolant resevour, the PCM and some electrical relays and I should have good access to it.