Dihtung Glava
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- May 16, 2022
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Kranj,
Europe
Hi, so I've been passionately searching this forum for the past week, ever since I bought my '99 2G 4G63T(out of a 1g) swapped eclipse, looking for a thread that would pose a similar problem to mine, but I haven't found one, so I'm writing my own now.
It all started when I first bought the car and drove it home. Pushing it up a nice curvy hillside road, the car blew almost all of it's coolant out of the overflow bottle and overheated towards the top of the hill. I stopped, got some water from a nearby restaurant and carefuly continued. I kept my eye on the temp gauge the whole time and, as it was staying in the bottom half, I thought I was in the clear. I let it hit boost a couple of times when I finaly drove into my town (which was probably stupid, I know) and it overheated again, just as I pulled into my driveway. All and all the trip was about an hour and 30 minutes, with the first overheat happening around 25 minutes in...
I found the radiator cap wasn't holding very well, so I got a new one the next day. This one, rated for higher pressures, holds nicely. The problem is now the entire cooling system is under a lot of pressure. The top radiator hose is rock solid after a couple minutes of driving and the coolant overflow bottle is constantly beeing filled, not so much when cruising, but if I floor it, it'll fill up in a couple minutes. So I'm guessing the coolant (which is about 50% water since I last filled it up) is constantly boiling or, there's just way too much pressure in the system, or you know, both.
So If anyone had something similar happen, what did you need to fix/replace?
It all started when I first bought the car and drove it home. Pushing it up a nice curvy hillside road, the car blew almost all of it's coolant out of the overflow bottle and overheated towards the top of the hill. I stopped, got some water from a nearby restaurant and carefuly continued. I kept my eye on the temp gauge the whole time and, as it was staying in the bottom half, I thought I was in the clear. I let it hit boost a couple of times when I finaly drove into my town (which was probably stupid, I know) and it overheated again, just as I pulled into my driveway. All and all the trip was about an hour and 30 minutes, with the first overheat happening around 25 minutes in...
I found the radiator cap wasn't holding very well, so I got a new one the next day. This one, rated for higher pressures, holds nicely. The problem is now the entire cooling system is under a lot of pressure. The top radiator hose is rock solid after a couple minutes of driving and the coolant overflow bottle is constantly beeing filled, not so much when cruising, but if I floor it, it'll fill up in a couple minutes. So I'm guessing the coolant (which is about 50% water since I last filled it up) is constantly boiling or, there's just way too much pressure in the system, or you know, both.
So If anyone had something similar happen, what did you need to fix/replace?