1996 Chevy Lumina overheat, loss of power

1996 CHEVROLET LUMINA
86,000 MILES • 6 CYL • FWD • AUTOMATIC
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96LUMINA
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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?
Nov 30, 2008 at 8:54 PM
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DOCFIXIT
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Cooling fans on?
Any water in oil weird brown gunk on stick?
White smoke from tail pipe?
Dec 1, 2008 at 8:34 AM
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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
Dec 2, 2008 at 8:51 AM
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fixed!!! it was the lower manifold gasket changed it car runs fine, no more gunk
Dec 6, 2008 at 9:56 AM
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Congrats you done good that is a common repair on that engine. Have an 02 Malibu same thing.
Dec 6, 2008 at 10:07 AM