overhating please please help asap!
05-03-2008, 06:42 PM
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overhating please please help asap! Ok so my car overheats randomly, it will run perfect for a couple of days then all of the sudden the temp will shoot up ill shut it down then a few minutes later it will start leaking out water from the water pump area. i then let it cool down put more water in it bleed it then its fine for a couple days....what could this be. o i also have the heater core clamped off cuz it was leaking and i live in so cal haha.... please help!!!!!!!!!
05-03-2008, 11:58 PM
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you need to keep adding water and bleeding it?
a) you may have a coolant leak
b) it may be a head gasket.
Do you have any steam coming out the exhaust? (after a small amount at startup of course)
Is it dripping coolant when parked and hot?
a) you may have a coolant leak
b) it may be a head gasket.
Do you have any steam coming out the exhaust? (after a small amount at startup of course)
Is it dripping coolant when parked and hot?
05-04-2008, 12:57 PM
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Is your water pump leaking, or is water escaping through the weeping hole?
If the car runs OK, then heats up like crazy, you might just have air in your cooling system. This happened to me the first time I did a coolant flush. Since our rads sit so low, you need to jack the front of the car up, so the rad is higher than the motor. Fill the rad, run the motor with the air bleed screws open for a thermocycle, and if it still overheats, repeat. This is the best way to clear the system of air, and get water in.
Good luck.
If the car runs OK, then heats up like crazy, you might just have air in your cooling system. This happened to me the first time I did a coolant flush. Since our rads sit so low, you need to jack the front of the car up, so the rad is higher than the motor. Fill the rad, run the motor with the air bleed screws open for a thermocycle, and if it still overheats, repeat. This is the best way to clear the system of air, and get water in.
Good luck.
