1996 Chevy Lumina overheat, loss of power

Tiny
96LUMINA
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  • 1996 CHEVROLET LUMINA
  • 6 CYL
  • FWD
  • AUTOMATIC
  • 86,000 MILES
Engine coolant recently switched to green instead of orange anti freeze. Car will slowly overheat then peg out and overheat light comes on. Antifreeze will go from full to empty at varying speeds. And also every once in a while the engine will bog down when accelerating. Any ideas?
Sunday, November 30th, 2008 AT 8:54 PM

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Tiny
DOCFIXIT
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Cooling fans on?
Any water in oil weird brown gunk on stick?
White smoke from tail pipe?
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Monday, December 1st, 2008 AT 8:34 AM
Tiny
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Cooling fans work fine. There was no smoke from tail pipe. But there was gunk on oil stick and level was high. After tearing into it found that it was probably a gasket. There was leakage from the upper manifold gasket. Im in the process of tearing down to that and will keep ya posted
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Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008 AT 8:51 AM
Tiny
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Fixed! It was the lower manifold gasket changed it car runs fine, no more gunk
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Saturday, December 6th, 2008 AT 9:56 AM
Tiny
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Congrats you done good that is a common repair on that engine. Have an 02 Malibu same thing.
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Saturday, December 6th, 2008 AT 10:07 AM

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