Someone please tell me what’s going on with my Equinox!

[Imperfectlyperfect]

Truck has 232,000 on it. I take very good care of her! Recently lost take off power, and hesitates when accelerating. Damn it man! I can’t catch a break!

 

[cavell]

What year? I don’t recognize this fitting. Where does it go? I’ve torn down a bunch of motors.

 

[bagbyjw]

What year? I don’t recognize this fitting. Where does it go? I’ve torn down a bunch of motors.

That looks like the pet cock for a radiator drain to me. Also what year is your Equinox SUV?

 

[cavell]

I might have thought rad drain but I wasn’t expecting that color/viscous of fluid. Actually, It’s such a clear well lit pic I was surprised it’s the bottom of rad.

 

[Will_K]

See if you see something similar under the oil cap and/or on the oil dipstick? If that's what's in the radiator, it could be oil in the coolant from a bad head gasket. Or you might not see that and I could be wrong.

 

[Lee]

What year? I don’t recognize this fitting. Where does it go? I’ve torn down a bunch of motors.

In other posts she has a 2014 with the 2.4 engine.

 

[cavell]

2014 with 232k miles? I’d say that was awesome. It made it this far. But, that stuff don’t look good. And it’s in 2005-2009 section.

 

[Imperfectlyperfect]

What year? I don’t recognize this fitting. Where does it go? I’ve torn down a bunch of motors.

 

[Imperfectlyperfect]

When accelerating you can feel it hesitating… like something’s holding it back from taking off.. like when I’m on the interstate and I’m doing 75-80.. I try to just stay at a steady speed, but now it constantly declines, and I’m constantly having to kick it down to speed back up.. It’s annoying

 

[Imperfectlyperfect]

That looks like the pet cock for a radiator drain to me. Also what year is your Equinox SUV?

It’s 2014

 

[Imperfectlyperfect]

This is where the fluid came out when I pulled it out..

 

[Imperfectlyperfect]

See if you see something similar under the oil cap and/or on the oil dipstick? If that's what's in the radiator, it could be oil in the coolant from a bad head gasket. Or you might not see that and I could be wrong.

It’s no where close to the radiator.. sorry for the lack of information