I've been having overheating problems for awhile on my car ( I've posted several threads actually trying to narrow down the problem) I think I got it now. I was hit a week after I got my car by a woman that ran an intersection, so it was in a shop for six months and they installed a new oem radiator, which might explain how this could be the problem. I already have a 160 therm in there too, but with no fan programming btw. Anyway, I lose coolant pretty bad ( about 3 weeks to empty the radiator) and my power steering pumps been going bad for awhile. When I checked the fluid in the PS pump, it was orange, like dex cool, and it looks like there is an overflow problem going on there too. Since my car is an SS, I have the PS cooler installed. I'm guessing that the shop routed the hoses for the pump, cooler, and radiator wrong and my dexcool is mixing in with the PS fluid. This would explain the over flow problem since its getting run through the pump and coming out the top. It should also explain the early death of the pump. So, I need to know how the cooler is run and through where ( hopefully through pics if anyones got any or a site). It looks like the pump is running right into the top radiator hose. Also, I could care less about dexcool running throught the pump since I'm going to be changing it, but could any problems arise from the fluid running through the engine?

 

here are two pics from the camaro/firebird parts manual thing:

that shows the PS cooler

this shows the PS hoses, it took me a minute to figure it out, but it looks like the hose clamps #7 and #8 go on the cooler. The hose clamps are different and specific for each hose; clamp #7 goes on hose #9, #7 is a 1/2-13/16" clamp; clamp #8 goes on hose #10, #8 is a M16X1 clamp. Hose #9 is the outlet hose, #10 is the inlet hose. The RPO code for the PS cooler is V12, right?


hope this helps. later!