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Posted by Marla --Previous Message--
on 11/7/2006, 7:17 am, in reply to "97 Chevy Venture Overheating"
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I also own a 97 chevy venture with problems a year ago they replaced the head gasket so they say and this also happened 3 years before this now i am having the same problems again and now they are telling me last year they replaced the intake gasket and 3 years before that it was the head gasket and now they are telling me it is the head gasket again and we are very frustrated and very upset last year alone we put over $2,000 into it and now they are telling me another $1300
: I have a 97 Chevy Venture. It has
: been overheating on me. I brought it
: to one mechanic who replaced the
: water pump, radiator hose and
: thermostat. That did not fix it. I
: brought it somewhere else where they
: rodded out the radiator, changed the
: thermostat AGAIN, ran some sort of
: sealer through it because I had a
: very very small head gasket leak.
: The van did fine for 3 days and then
: overheated again. When it overheats,
: it does it VERY quickly. I pull
: over and pop the hood and the
: plastic overflow tank is completely
: full and the radiator, of course, is
: not. Eventually, the van cools off
: and the water goes back to the
: radiator. I can crank it up again,
: once it cools off and sometimes it
: overheats again, within a minute,
: and sometimes it does not. I can
: sometimes drive for hours without
: the needle even going to the halfway
: mark, and then there are times I
: can’t even drive half a mile without
: the needle pegging out in the red.
: Any ideas? I have spent over 800.00
: so far and am getting very
: frustrated, not to mention BROKE.
:
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