Coolant Burning On The Header Heat Shield Options

[Apocalypitca]

Alrighty...i'm having even more problems with this car. It started by me driving to work one morning and on my way there i started smelling something strange cause i had the window down. I pull into work turn my car off and white smoke sprays from underneath the hood. I pop the hood and there is coolant leaking on my heat shield to my headers. I check my resevoir? and its empty. Later when i got off i went and got some more coolant from walmart which was next door to where i work .. which is sams but i put more into the resevoir? and i let it run for awhile. it went good for awhile till the car got up to temp and then a puddle appeared and smoke on the heat shield.

need some help bad

[dannwo1]

There's a heater pipe that runs from the right side of your thermostat housing, above your header, and around the block. The line is all metal accept for a small section (3 inches or so) linking it to your thermostat housing.

Odds are that the connection (held with factory spring clamps) at the end of the rubber hose is loose and the antifreeze is dripping down onto your manifold. Try and feel where it is wet under the hose. If it is at the joint, just get some worm screw hose clamps and tighten them town next to the spring clamp.

Worst case scenario, the metal pipe is cracked, and you'll have to bolt on a new one.

The antifreeze should be put into the radiator cap on top of your thermostat housing. The resivior only collects access antifreeze which is not currently being used in the cooling system.

[waynerwats]

Check the rubber hose that holds the metal line to the thermostat housing for cracks or leaks.