- Joined
- Feb 26, 2001
- Messages
- 183
- Location
- 10 miles south of Detroit, MI
- Corvette
- Sold my '89 Triple Black Convertible - 3/08
Here's my situation...
Last winter, while my vette was tucked away in the garage, she developed a coolant leak. The strange thing is, it was nothing constant. I put her away and start her up every week or 2 until the oil temp gets up to 200 degrees. For the first few weeks, everything was fine...until one day, I go out and there's a smallish puddle of coolant underneath her. I cleaned it up and it didn't happen again until about a month or 2 later. At this point, it was around February and I figured I'd wait until Spring to bring her into a mechanic and get it checked out. Well, this past April I took her out of storage but had absolutely no problems with the coolant leaking. I drove from April until 2 weeks ago when I tucked her back into the garage for winter storage and found nothing wrong. Well, I came out today to check on her and wouldn't you know it - a decent size stream of coolant running into the drain in the middle of the garage floor!
Now, this problem only seems to happen in cold temperatures. I'm going to try to attach a picture of where the leak is coming from. The picture was taken from just underneath the front of the car.
Thanks in advance for any help you can offer!
-J.
Last winter, while my vette was tucked away in the garage, she developed a coolant leak. The strange thing is, it was nothing constant. I put her away and start her up every week or 2 until the oil temp gets up to 200 degrees. For the first few weeks, everything was fine...until one day, I go out and there's a smallish puddle of coolant underneath her. I cleaned it up and it didn't happen again until about a month or 2 later. At this point, it was around February and I figured I'd wait until Spring to bring her into a mechanic and get it checked out. Well, this past April I took her out of storage but had absolutely no problems with the coolant leaking. I drove from April until 2 weeks ago when I tucked her back into the garage for winter storage and found nothing wrong. Well, I came out today to check on her and wouldn't you know it - a decent size stream of coolant running into the drain in the middle of the garage floor!
Now, this problem only seems to happen in cold temperatures. I'm going to try to attach a picture of where the leak is coming from. The picture was taken from just underneath the front of the car.
Thanks in advance for any help you can offer!
-J.