On Friday night my 94 LS was showing signs of aging. When I'm driving sometimes, the front right wheel starts making a low to sometimes LOUD screeching sound. My brakes are fine though. Even when I brake really hard, there's no screeching sound what so ever. It makes the noise only when the car is in motion or when your turning. CV joints?

Another problem I had that night was my car's temperature started rising way pass normal. Almost to H. So I popped the hood and found it very low on coolant. I filled it up to only half way just to see what happens. Then I drove it around for awhile and it was normal. Later on, the temp went back up. So I checked the coolant and it was almost empty again. First thing that came to my mind was, I'm leaking coolant from somewhere. I looked, but it was dry. Then I decided o check my oil. The dipstick showed me that I had no more than a few hair strands of oil left. That's when I saw it slowly dripping from where my oil pan was. I'm not too sure if it's my oil pan or not, but I can also see oil dripping or some sort of liquid on the upper far left corner. It's below the battery, around that area. Everytime I start up my car now, the MAIN REQ. light starts blinking for about 5 seconds and then stops. Also at times, my coolant gets drained really fast. I have to fill it up every hour almost. I'll go check the fan and radiator.

 

Main Req light is a dummy light that can be reset under the dash via a button.

The screeching sound could be your pad wear indicators, bearings, or any host of things.

Your coolant and oil problems (you are adding water not pure coolant, right?) sound like a headgasket.


As Always, A quick search will reveal answers to all of your questions.

 

Where exactly is the button to reset the Maint Rego light? Searched and hvent been able to find it.

 

under the driver side dash... should be on the right side... (left if ur looking from under)

 

for the temp problem, check fan, maybe change radiator caps, headgasket, thermostat and thats all i can think of right now

 

check the fan relay switch. The fan is probably not turning on when you're at idle, when you're driving though, i bet it runs cool. It's probably the switch. IF that is the problem, go ahead and replace it, it's cheap, and while you're at it, flush out the coolant system. I did this to mine when it was overheating and it fixed it, now it barley goes above the C.