I'd be willing to bet that your water pump is siezed up.
I thought you just bought a brand new vehicle?
-- - Josh Lowered 2000 Dakota CC 3.9L www.geocities.com/lenny187/dakota.html www.omg-stfu.com"Brian Fitchett" <bfitchett@comcast.net> wrote in message news:c8cv7h$ga8$1@bent.twistedbits.net... > > I noticed the sweet smell of burnt antifreeze after i got home today. i > looked for any obvious leaks and didnt see any. i topped off the > antifreeze and changed the belt since it was cracked and i was under the > hood anyways. couple of things that i noticed... there were some burn > marks around the pulley that has the fan attached (i dont know exactly > what it is called, i am a chemist not a mechanic) like the belt had been > skidding aginst the mount there and i also noticed that the fan doesnt > spin freely (if it isnt supposed to, disregard that comment but let me > know!). so i got the belt on and retensioned, started it up and smoke > starts coming from the aforementioned pulley, figure that cant be > good.... any ideas about what the problem may be and what the sweetly > sickening smell of antifreeze can indicate and how to fix this. > > Thanks > > Brian > Black 98 CC V6 > SLC, UT
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