Took it out of the garage earlier to start it up and let it run for a little while, seen she started to leak some red colored fluid...
Turns out it's coolant....
Coolant light came on and my tank is drained.. and smelled defiantly like coolant, opened the hood and a verrrrry small amount of steam was coming near the turbo.
Looks as though it could be a seal leak, but I'm a newb to the ecotec yet....
It has the Saab Turbo Setup. I need help ASAP!!!!
Heres some pics of the rear of the block or what I could see.
So being it's the Saab does it have the coolant lines ran to the turbo?
Have you checked those? Do you have knowledge of that setup?
Is one of the heater core lines resting on the downpipe? Maybe it melted the line. Or do you have the coolant lines running into the turbo? Maybe its one of the brass washers leaking. Thats all i can think of for now. Do you have a radiator pressure checker? You can rent these at autozone and pump it up and see where it spews from...
You might want to post this in the boost section.
Ok, my dad looked at the pictures of it.
I need some insight on this turbo setup, it looks more like a line came off or just broke.
not familiar with this setup, but we are going to look at it tomorrow morning, so if anyone has some pictures of the lines run to the turbo please post them.
Simply follow where they're ran (t'ed) off of the factory lines to the turbo.
...but seriously you posted this, both here, and in P&M without doing a simple diagnosis on it?
Like I said, I have no clue about this motor, I gave it a quick look when I put it back in the garage.
I will look it over further tomorrow and see what is going on.
Matt Burgess wrote:Is one of the heater core lines resting on the downpipe? Maybe it melted the line. Or do you have the coolant lines running into the turbo? Maybe its one of the brass washers leaking. Thats all i can think of for now. Do you have a radiator pressure checker? You can rent these at autozone and pump it up and see where it spews from...
You might want to post this in the boost section.
this is my guess, this was the only "issue" i ever had with the turbo, when andy called me and said head gasket, i thought of this exactly, not the head gasket.
My best guess is that it's a cooling line to the turbo. Whatever it might come out to be, good luck with it.
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only reason I had thought it was the head, is when it was dripping down it looked as though it was coming off the head. I'm going to look at it in a few minutes and I will keep you updated.
t2- I'm not mad, don't worry, stuff happens.
and if this needs to be posted in the boost section, mod please move it.
No the water pump is on the passenger side of the motor. That part there is where the thermostate is in. It is wet all over though under there, i would pressure test it.
Hmmmm, now I really wonder what part it is.
So it could be as easy as a thermostat, or what would be leaking. I'm taking it to a family friend to look at it tomorrow afternoon.
if you re routed the coolant lines like i did then check the connection to the heater core on the firewall.
check the hoses. maybe one has a hole, check the connections to the motor, thats the only real connections in the rear.
was it recently filled and overflowed out the tube a ton and thats all over the car?
start simple
By the pictures you have posted I'd say one of the heater core hoses has a hole from the downpipe. There are two of them and it goes from the back of your engine to the firewall, pull off both and check.
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I will check the hoses today, but when I was looking at the housing, it looked like a ring was leaking, or it was just forming there then dripping...
Ok got it figured out, the heater core inlet tube had melted from the downpipe.
I'm going to replace that tube, and heat wrap the downpipe..
What header wrap do you guys recommend that isn't thick being I will need to put the inlet tube on and the downpipe rests on the tube right now.
i had the same thing happen to my car, it was the black part of the housing that was leaking.....i just got another thermostat housing and it fixed the issue....
SLOCAV wrote:
It looks like your missing a bolt on your downpipe...
oh hey, thanks for pointing that out. looks to be a nut missing.
SLOCAV wrote:oh hey, thanks for pointing that out. looks to be a nut missing.
No problem,, Is it leaking? Like a load exhaust leak?
its just noisy in that area, but figure that from the turbo... not sure.
Now I gotta find one that will match up with that thread.
Let us know how you make out.
