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I have a 1997 chevy lumina 3 1 litter and looks like some water in oil

What can it be,car is sluggish, was overheating, but changed thermostat.acts like it want to die

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  • redbone3 Sep 04, 2008

    have a 1997 chevy lumina. it constantly overheats when i first drive the car, even if i let it sit and warm up. have changed the lower intake gasket, the water pump the thermostat, and the radiator. it still does the same thing. once it overheats the temp. gauge just fluxis between real low to real high. had a diagnostics and they said it was the radiator. so i changed that and it still does the same thing. now the car stalls and dies on occasion since changing the radiator. what could be a problem that i haven't checked. all the fans work and everything.

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To many years on the road probably was mistreated--don't want to make u feel bad but it may be head engine that is about to die--make sure that the tank water always full,fuel pump clean AND all plugs ok

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