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Car Forum / Chevrolet / Chevrolet Malibu / January 2007Chevy Malibu Overheats Fast? Water Pump? Thermostat?
Howdy last week we noticed our 2002 chevy malibu (with the famous crapy 3.1 engine) was leakng coolant we couldent figure out where. after some research online i figured our manifold gasket was bad as so many other out there i tore down the motor and replaced the gasket which was in fact all torn up at the water ports and reassembled everything i flushed the moter and the cooling system with products from the parts mart and now the car seems to run fine now but at some points the car will just almost instantly go to the red limit and the hot light will come on if i drain a little pressure out of the nipple above the water pump it will resume back to a normal temp almost just as fast as it heated up do you think this could be water pump issue or a thermostat issue. the stat is brand new. i checked anfd there is no oil in the water and no water in the oil any help would be a great help. there is no way i could afford to take it to a dealer. thanks Sean.Stepien@gmail.com wrote in news:1167573920.091350.57210 @s34g2000cwa.googlegroups.com: > Howdy last week we noticed our 2002 chevy malibu (with the famous crapy > 3.1 engine) was leakng coolant we couldent figure out where. after some [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > water and no water in the oil any help would be a great help. there is > no way i could afford to take it to a dealer. thanks 3.1 isnt a 'crappy engine' per say. the 60 degree configuration has proven to be an iron horse of an engine with a thorn in its hoof (int.,man. gskts)........having dpne many a dozen leakers in the past yrs., most resently = yesterday, i imagine you are still dealing with trapped air. i have ran into many that required only refill and one bleed after gasket job BUT just as many that i babysetted a couple of hours trying to get system purged......i would discount the water pump but think hard about the thermo. which should have been replaced when lower manif. was on the bench.....let us know how it turns out. thank you for the help i should of stated that the new thermostat was installed in the rebuild process im not sure if im bleeding it right but i have put in over 2 gallons of water in im not sure if it is leaking out or being forced out during the spontanious overheats. could i have gotten a bad thermo from the parts store? i open the little nipple over the water pump till water comes out then i run it some more and repeate is there some other way to purge the air? thanks > thank you for the help i should of stated that the new thermostat was > installed in the rebuild process im not sure if im bleeding it right [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > nipple over the water pump till water comes out then i run it some more > and repeate is there some other way to purge the air? thanks howdy i just had a little bit if fun on the way home i would notice the temp getting higher and when i accelerate it would come back down to normal it stalled out on me once and once i was home and it cooled down i tried to check the level and my radiator cap came off in 2 pieces? could the cap cause this? thanks if there is any other info you would need please let me know |
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