Sure as ****... I took it out for a LITTLE SPIN this morning. I had to fill the radiator back up with coolant because it looked pretty much empty.

I went 3 miles out but when I started to come back it began to over heat.

I rolled in to my drive way and checked the passenger floor. There was a huge puddle of green coolant.

I am ready to do cheetah flips now that I finally found the problem.

Thanks for the help Guys!!!

Now I just need some help with changing out the heater core. Any suggestions?

I went to advance and they are charging $80.00 FOR A HEATER CORE for a 95 Z.

 

Your Welcome!

$80 sounds about right maybe a little high, try calling around my local pep boys had one in stock for a little less if I remeber correctly.

Oh and this will help!
There are others out there but that should get you started!

 

Congrats, glad you finally found the problem..

 

I put one in mine, I only paid 40 or 45 for it, but I forget where, I think NAPA or pep boys.

And it wasn't that bad, I have the big GM sevice manual, and followed the instructions.

 

Cool Shoe! good luck on the R&R.

 

Just in case somebody else is looking for a heater core....

I have called around and Car Quest has them for $29.91 with a 3 year warranty.

Auto Zone, Advance, Pep boys, and NAPA All want some where between 69.00 - 89.00 $$$$.

Of course it could be priced different for different areas of the country.
But a good giuideline.

I think Autozone was the only place that had a limited lifetime warranty.( I didnt ask Advance for their warranty info)

 

Thanks for the link. Only one question.

It says to diconnect the air bag fuse from the dash fuse box... which one if for the air bags?

Is it the two big silver ones?

 

look on the cover you pulled off....it should have a sticker on it that tells what all the fuses are

 

I didn't disconect any of them when I did mine, they are one of those warnings that everyone tells you to do before working on your car. Like dicscontect the battery, if you know what you are doing and don't short anything out then there is nothing to worry about, but if you are really worried about it then you can probably find the fuse info on shoebox's site.

 

Well I think I have proved that I am not an accomplished mechanic.

But if I were to disconnect the battery would that prevent the air bag from going off?
Ive looked on SHBOX.com and unless I missed it ther is no picture of the dash fuse box telling which of the fuses is the air bag deployment fuse.

 

Yep sure as **** I removed the heater core and the thing looked BAD like it gave up years ago. But nobody ever replaced it.

I think the previous owner was a chick so I imagine she didnt do anything mechanical wise.

But when I first bought the car it had a water pump bypass hose in place.

Well looks like this thread has served its purpose thank you to everybody that helped out with suggestions.

 

good to see that another problem was solved

 

see it wasn't that bad to do it yourself now was it?? Glad you got it fixed, now you can drive your car more then 3-5 miles at a time!

 

Well back to the flippin drawing board!!!!!

I took it out to drop off some blockbuster movies about 2 miles away. Everything was fine and the temp stayed about 180*.

I got back in the car drove to autozone and it was fine.

After autozone I got in and started driving home and it sure as **** started to over heat AGAIN!!!

I put the heater core in as instructed and I had no extra parts left over (it was actually very easy)
I went through the whole bleeding the coolant system again.

I do not know what else to do.....


HELP!!!!!

 

Sorry to hear that!! so I know you have been through a lot with this thing but are you sure everything is tight and no way for air to get into the system?