So last night I started smelling coolant inside my car while I was stopped at a light. Since I was close to my house I went ahead and drove on home, and when I got there I couldn't see anything under the car or anything in the engine bay. It ended up being a leak from under the passenger side of the dash. I went back out this morning and double checked everything again. I have a video included -
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v6...t=000_0048.flv

In the video that was with my car warmed up after about 5-10 mins.

I was just wondering if anyone else has had this problem or knows what might be wrong. I would like to be have this fixed asap since it's making my interior smell like .... well you know.

 

Time for a new heater core

 

It sounds like you have a heater core leak.
Edit: I type too slow.

 

Yep,heater core.

 

Everyone got it right... You could bypass it for the summer by connecting the lines that go into the firewall together.

 

yep, you can bypass it if you want to for now and wait to fix it later(i've heard its a pain to replace)

 

heater core wasnt horribly bad in my 95. pull glove box out and panel under glove box and you can get at everything you need to. hopefully you can salvage the hoses that go to the heater core. the only place i coul dfind the hoses was through the dealer and it they cost me 150 depending on thr new core the metal bracket that held the old one tight in under the dashmight not work so you might have to figure another way to hold it exactly in place.

 

Thanks for the help/input guys. I'll probably just bypass it tomorrow, then worry about changing out the core sometime next week when I'm out of school.

What all do I need to do a bypass though? Also, do I need to drain the cooling system to perform the bypass.

 

You should'nt need to drain the cooling system. I think you can just connect the in coming and the out going together. I've never done it but I think thats it, you mat need a connector to connect the 2.

 

Well I just got done doing a bypass. I ran it for a few minutes and didn't see any leaks. So hopefully it will hold until sometime next week when I will get the money to purchase a new heater core. Thanks for all the help everyone.

 

On some other model chevys, the inlet and outlet are slightly different sizes. Is it the same for this Camaro..?