2003 Chevy Impala fuel injector

70,000 MILES • 6 CYL • 2WD • AUTOMATIC
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FRANKJAMES-06
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03 all black impala 3.8liter v6. Worked fine, checked it every day for water and oil and everything. No problems until the winter in colorado came. First my heater went out. Then my water kept getting drained for some reason.. I still had anti freeze tho... it was full but no water. When this problem happened I had just drove 60 miles, then my check engine light came on and my car started to smoke so I read the hot guage and it said 260 then went down to normal and quit smoking. Then i tried to accelerate above 60 mph and i lost power and my speed started to rapidly decline eventually to wear it wouldn't go at all. then I attempted to start it and I had to keep pushing on the gas pedal to get it started and to keep it started. Help?
Feb 14, 2008 at 10:28 AM
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DENNYP
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you probably blew out the upper intake manifold gasket, or a head gasket. The power loss would be from the exhaust getting restricted from the coolant getting in the catalytic converter.
Feb 18, 2008 at 12:01 PM
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