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Pushed coolant tonight

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xcelr8n

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Jan 31, 2003
toronto,
Hey guys was on my way to a friends highway drive about 30 mins all highway... cruising around 80 with slight bursts of acceleration to about 90 95mph tops, I get there leave the car for 5 minutes, come back outside and there is a lot of coolant running down his driveway, it all starts from the overflow/lower rad hose area.
I fill it back up, I drive it later that night no hard driving at all, and it doesnt leak one drop all night. I get back home, I decide for lack of better judgement Im gonna go drive it hard to see what happens... anyways drive the crap out of it for 10-15 mins well spirited not abused, and its fine no leaking or anything.
Anything besides Headgasket to be worried about? I'm gonna do a compression test tomorrow and see if the numbers are different then last months 155psi test.
Thanks

ps. Should have mentioned earlier, the car DID NOT overheat for 1 second it ran perfectly operational, no power loss or anything at all.
Also the engine oil still looks like brand new engine oil from the change 2 weeks ago, no mixing.
 
It might just be a simple overheat from a crappy radiator, maybe a good flush if you dont find anything else wrong. :dsm:
 
Look for cracks in the radiator tanks, both top and bottom.
Do a pressure test on the cooling system, and test the coolant for hydrocarbons using either a sniffer or test strips.
A bad head gasket won't necessarily yield a change in the compression readings.
 
I will get the system pressure tested, unfortunately I am going away for about 10 days tomorrow so the car will sit til I get back....
I'm hoping its the rad cap, I wanna mod not repair... ROFL
 
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