Well today being an *** i was in my drive way put it in reverse let it coast back then put my car in neutral then threw it into drive while gunning it and when i did so i felt cool as the tires were spinning then not so cool when my car was steaming... so i looked in and antifreeze was coming out of the AIR pump switching valve, out of like the top and it was everywhere and when i turned the car back on it just keeps coming out what the hell did i do and what can i do. Please help
Mitchell

 

Nothing related, you just coencidently blew a leak in your cooling system. Find the part leaking and replace it.

By the way, its not very smart doing burnouts lby droping the trans into gear whiule rolling backwards. You are very lucky if no damage has occured yet from that.

 

^ Agreed. Droping gears in an auto is a No-no..... Replace everything worn in your cooling system, it's good practice.

 

well the hoses that connect to the air pump switching valve are leaking and when you push on the gas it squirts out what do you think needs replaced the whole air pump switching valve? or just put some brackets around the hoses???
Mitchell

 

I used to put the 89 2.8 firebird auto tranny into reverse then slam it into drive all the time when i was "borrowing it from my mom" I was 16 so I didnt know any better my friends and I thought it was cool. I almost thought on a few occasions the tranny would have dropped right out of it though. I own the car now... my parents moved to FL and didnt want to take it with them so they gave it to me. The only thing I have found that may have been caused by that is a broken tranny mount. Lucky I guess 118,900 miles on it and the tranny has never came out and driveshaft still tight. I suppose the yolk on the driveshaft "SHOULD" break before you do much damage to the tranny.

 

1. DON'T DO THAT AGAIN.
2. Remove the valve. Check the hoses. REPLACE THE CLAMPS
3. Get a antifreeze checker tube and test your anti freeze. Flush/fill if needed.
4. If flush /fill needed, while the system is empyt grab EVERY HOSE and squeeze it from one end to the other. If you hear ANY NOISE replace that hose. If the hose feels excesively soft at any one point REPLACE THAT HOSE. If the hose feels excessively hard at any point REPLACE THAT HOSE. Heater hose is cheap. The upper/lower rad hoses are pretty cheap. Look at the base and behind the water pump. You see fluid, say it with me REPLACE THE WATER PUMP.
Also DO NOT, I MEAN DO NOT REUSE THE OLD HOSE CLAMPS. THEY ARE JUNK (Factory) AND AT A $1 OR LESS FOR 2 THEY ARE CHEAP INSURANCE.

 

That's probably the heater core bypass valve.. the AIR valve has 4 hoses and two electrical connections, the heater bypass only has 3 hoses and a vacuum line.

It's a completely unrelated failure, but please don't tell us about you doing neutral drops again.

 

If only you could reach through the computer screen and smack someone on the nose with a news paper. I was real dumb when I got my car, couldn't have told you what an alternator was, were it was, what it did or anything and I still knew enough to not shift the car into gear when going in the opposite direction of that gear....just isn't smart.