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Old Nov 27, 2016 | 09:14 PM
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Just wanted an opinion before I ordered a new motor.

So I bought the car and the headlights worked fine, fogs/blinker and secondary fogs behind the screens. After awhile and actually using the headlights, the passenger headlight stopped coming up. Well today for whatever reason, I decided to try them, and they worked. Hi-low beams and fogs and everything worked fine. Well before, I would put on the fog lights, 2nd position on stick, and the popups would stay down. Now I put the fogs on and the popups come up. Also everything works fine when they popup but when I put them down, my passenger headlight makes a grinding noise for about 5 seconds, then stops.

Silly car, what should I replace here?

Also I got a low coolant dic earlier and I need to know which coolant is best cause my new cars take that orange stuff, does the vette need that? can I buy that from dealer? I dont mind getting my gm parts there

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Yeah, that noise means you need to replace the headlight gears.

As for the coolant, you first need to find out where the leak is coming from, before just adding more coolant.
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Yeah, that noise means you need to replace the headlight gears.

As for the coolant, you first need to find out where the leak is coming from, before just adding more coolant.
Looks like the clamp isn't working to good on the top side of the reservoir so I have a leak from there as far as I can tell. I checked the coolant about a week ago and it looked fine. I haven't had any low coolant issues, nothing overheating, no blue smoke, no problems at all since I bought it and it pulls hard.

Has 66k miles and seriously needs some long tubes
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Old Nov 28, 2016 | 08:20 AM
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Thanks for the reply.

I was hoping the tank was not cracked, but looking online after your response says it could be. I do see that I would need the 97 to 99 tank, which is fine and the price points do match what youre stating. Thanks again, I will order both parts.

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