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My car continues to stale after fixing the timing belt and water pump, what eles can I do.

The car will run when vacume hose is disconnected. When plugged back in it s St ales out again. What eles can I try?

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Hi, you may have a bad timing. Check the ting again to make sure.

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  • Posted on Oct 03, 2008

SOURCE: HOW TO PUT THE TIMING BELT BACK ON AFTER CHANGING THE WATER PUMP

hi did the water pump callapse and cause the car to stop or was it running and you decided to change the the pump and before you took the belt off did you line the timming marks up just let me know and lets see if we can get it going for you yates210456

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  • Posted on Jul 27, 2009

SOURCE: I have 98 dodge avenger had the water pump seize

Check the passage of the coolant if there are debris or leaks. There might be a puncture on the engine block somewhere.

Anonymous

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  • Posted on Jan 31, 2009

SOURCE: timing belt single cam eng.

You can try spraying some WD40 around all the vacume lines while its running and see if there is any differance in the way it sounds or runs, if there is a vacume leak thats a way to find it. if there is a PCV valve it would be in the valve cover.

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SOURCE: 1998 2.0L DOHC neon, water pump went which caused

Yes, very much so.

Anonymous

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  • Posted on Feb 28, 2011

SOURCE: 1999 dodge intrepid loseing coolent

Hi,
You need to do a cylinder leakage test. It sounds like you may have a head gasket not sealing properly, and this is where your water loss is going and is causing the engine to run rough also.
A quick test is to remove the radiator cap when the engine is cool, then run the engine till it gets hot and when the water is hot you should start to see the water running along in the radiator. Make sure it is full and make sure no bubbling and squirting of water from the radiator happens. If this happens then it is a good sign that your head gasket needs replacing.
Let me know if you want more information.
Thanks
Jason

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  3. Disconnect the radiator outlet hose.
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