i oWn a 95 saturn sl1 i paid 60.00 for it the car is absolutely gorgeous except theres antifreeze leaking and a small amount of blue smoke coming out of the exhaust i was told valve guides are the smoking problem. but the antifreeze problem no one could tell me why or how its coming out i crawled under it and there is antifreeze dripping from the frame support and that is all i know please help me Edited by: 95supersaturn

 

Dripping on the passenger side? Water pump.

 

Dripping on driver's side, front frame support?

If there is no obvious leak from the hose connections at the radiator or the block, and the drain is not leaking, (and you aren ot billowing white smoke (head gasket), likely radiator is cracked.

Side tanks on these radiators are plastic and tend to crack at the upper lateral mount (not the vertical one). If you see any fluid at these lateral mounts, it's a goner. Time, thermal cycling, and the nature of aging plastic leads to the failure. It ends up blowing back onto the frame support due to the wind under the car while you're driving.

Or of course there may be a hole in the radiator resulting from corrosion due to neglect by the previous owner.

Just replaced my radiator (95SC2) last week -- after 198K mi....

Derf


Edited by: derf