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[Flybiyou]

Lastnight me and my girlfreind were comeing back from the dsm meet in schaumburg,IL and we get off the freeway and she pulls over and tells me her power steering went out so I pop the hood and her serpentine belt came off. Now the horriable part I SMELL COOLANT her overflow was smokeing so I run to check her temp gauge its peged out.
I looked for leaks and coulnt find anything opened her coolant cap and it was empty i open her drain #### and nothing (where did it all go).

I checked all coolant lines nothing cracked or poped off so I lost for where the coolant went and I have no idea why her belt poped off I tried to put it back on and theres no way it would have caome off it should of had plenty of tension. No cracks on the pulley either so again im lost no ideas.

Any thought of what I should look for or what could of happened. Has this ever happened to anyone eles. The car is a 98 gst spyder with 83,000 on it.Please any help or ideas would be great. I think we caught the heating problem right away befor she drove to much on it cause we turned it off and the car started to cool down within 5 mins. Where should I look for damage to the engine.

AJ

 

[luv2rallye]

Sure the alternator belt is on and tight? It also runs the water pump. The power steering belt has nothing to do with the cooling system unless it also took out the alt. belt.

Sounds like you blew a gasket (or something) somewhere in the cooling system. Do a cooling system pressure test.

 

[Flybiyou]

So if the belt drives the water pump and the engine started to over heat wouldnt all the coolant come out the overflow because it was boiling could that be how it disappered. But that still dosent explain why the belt would come off they were replaced 6 months ago.

 

[luv2rallye]

I don't know why your belt (you said the P.S.) broke. Perhaps it wasn't the proper size belt or it was too tight or too loose.

Is your alt. belt still on and turning the water pump pulley?

There are many possibilites for overheating - most of which involve a coolant system leak somewhere. And when it overheats, water will come out the leak or the overflow. If there wasn't enough water in there in the first place, it could overheat and any remaining could exit the overflow.

When you filled the radiator back up does it still diappear? What happens?

 

[Flybiyou]

Ive been to busy to work on it. Monday I will get at it to see whats up. First im going to fill the coolant system and then put the belt on (it just poped off it didnt break or snap) then start the car and see what happens. If i dont see a leak im going to get the coolant system tested.

For the other question the bottom belt I did not check it was raining hard and I was getting soaked. I had her car towed to our house and we drove home in my car. I think it was her power steering belt cause she had no power steering. Her batter light was on so the belt that turns that section was probly not turning either. Post tommorow and tell you what I find. Again is there any thing else I should loook for (cracks in the block) or is there anything that could of gone bad due to over heating.

Thanks again

 

[luv2rallye]

ok the battery lite being on means the alternator isn't working and that is the other belt I mentioned. With that belt off you have no working water pump thus your overheating. If you stopped the engine soon you should be ok. You might get away with just filling the radiator. If you ran it a long time being overheated, the head can get warped. But odds are you probably are ok. Fill it up and run it and see what happens.

 

[Defiant]

Water pump seized, belt threw, car was driven to death. Motor time.

 

[Flybiyou]

Ok I took the day off work to fix her car I found that a pulley poped off (crank pulley it split apart) so thats why the belt fell off. I just went to mitsu picked one up and the car is running well. I checked over the engine and it looks ok. Took it for a drive and nothing seems diffrent so I think it's ok. Thanks for all the ideas and help.

AJ ps Is there anyway I can hook up a led light to turn on when the car reachs a high temp. My girlfriend is bad at watching her gauges she was bosting 20 psi on a t-25 for a week till I drove it and saw her gauge then adjusted her boost controller.

 

[Defiant]

Curses! ANOTHER harmonic balancer bites it, and I missed it. Drat!

Good on your girl to get it stopped in time.

 

[Flybiyou]

Ok one more thing to add and another I will have to fix for her (im going to have to start charging her thisnoise comeing from the timing belt area. It sounds like the t-belt it rubbing but it also sounds like metel rubbing to(Its not crankwalk I know what that sounds like). Do you think she could of damaged her water pump and if so how would it sound. Its really hard to find exactly where the noise is comeing from it started this shortly after I first drove it. Any ideas on that?

Again thanks for all the help --I love this site

 

[Defiant]

Go to Harbor Freight and get a mechanic's stethescope. Best thing ever for finding bad bearings.

 

[dets]

remember to tourque tighten everything to factory specs.

i hate hearing, " i just switched my water pump a month ago and its broken again"


its always because of over tightening. TOURQUE WRENCH IT!!!!

good luck...