NTRCOOL
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- Apr 10, 2002
OVERHEATING? The issues and their solutions have remained the same- either you don't have enough cool air reaching the rad, there's a cooling system obstruction which is preventing coolant from circulating, or your head gasket has failed and is allowing coolant to be consumed or pushed away from the engine.
Discuss all possible overheating problems and solutions here.
OK,
I just left my house to go over to my GF's,and happen to look down and see my needle right before the red mark. This just happened out of nowhere. I stop the car as quickly as i can, and pour in some coolant(Coolant a little low). Still same thing. Welp im in the middle of the road, and HAD to get it home. Im only 5 min from my house. I decided to try and make it(I really had no other choice). Welp I drive no faster than 20mph, and the temp needle is BARELY into the red the whole way.And occasionaly to the left of it. Am I ok?? Do ya think any damage was done?? And im thinking either thermostat, or water pump. For each of those, whats a round about $$ figure to get replaced?? Any info you have would be GREATLY appreciated!
Discuss all possible overheating problems and solutions here.
OK,
I just left my house to go over to my GF's,and happen to look down and see my needle right before the red mark. This just happened out of nowhere. I stop the car as quickly as i can, and pour in some coolant(Coolant a little low). Still same thing. Welp im in the middle of the road, and HAD to get it home. Im only 5 min from my house. I decided to try and make it(I really had no other choice). Welp I drive no faster than 20mph, and the temp needle is BARELY into the red the whole way.And occasionaly to the left of it. Am I ok?? Do ya think any damage was done?? And im thinking either thermostat, or water pump. For each of those, whats a round about $$ figure to get replaced?? Any info you have would be GREATLY appreciated!
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okay i will start from the beginning. I recieved my car(91 Eagle Talon TSi FWD) from a buddy who said it just died on him on the highway. he took it to his mechanic and they told him it was a bad ECU. so he gave it to me. I inspected the car and upon removal of the timing cover, i found the Timing belt snapped. so i knew i was gonna need a new head. I bought a parts car that had less than 1000 miles on the rebuilt head, and installed it on my car. right on top of a Brand new Cometic three layer MLS Head Gasket. i torqued the head bolts down from the center outward to 72lbs in three even steps. it ran fine for about a week or two, then all of a sudden i started hearing a hiss from the front. the top of the plastic radiator was cracked and started leaking. i attempted a jbweld fix, but it slowly worked through that... then about a week ago, it got to the point where it was spraying real bad out the top of the radiator. so i replaced the radiator with another one i had from the parts car. as soon as it wasin there and i refilled the system, i started the car to try to push the air out of the system. as soon as it started i had a lot of pressure right at the thermostat housing!! lots of flow going through the system right there. upon doing some searching, i have found that that might be a symptom of a bad head gasket. something like the compression from the motor pushing antifreeze through the system. however i get no mixing in the coolant system of oil and no mixing of antifreeze in the crankcase. at least not on the the dipstick. so i moved on. havent done a compression test yet, but i will tomorrow. so i ran it for about fifteen minutes till the temp got to midline, the whole time the fluid was very active in the housing, and then the fans kicked on. it sucked a lot of fluid down, and i refilled the system. thought it was full. so i closed up the system, and filled the overflow bottle. then i went for a drive. i got about 2 miles down the road before she started heating up. i pulled over and i had a LOT of steam blowing through the overflow pipe. figured maybe my ratio was off... so i put a complete gallon of antifreeze in it and it took it!!! then i went driving again. got about a mile down the road and i heard a pop and spray. i blew the coolant bypass hose running from the the big pipe down to the oil cooler. so i bypassed the oil cooler temporarily, and filled it with as much water as she could hold. then i drove home. made it 90% of the way on the highway and then once i came to a stop light, she started heating up again. i had both fans going the whole time!!! so i brought it home, and left it overnight. today when i got off work, i bought a brand new thermostat, ten degrees cooler(185), gasket, new rad cap, and a gallon of antifreeze. when i got home, i drained the radiator from the petcock, pulled the lines from the heater core, and connected them together. then i replaced the thermostat and gasket, ran the oil cooler back in line with the coolant system, and refilled the entire system. it still gets a lot of pressure in the thermostat housing when the car runs, hope its not my head gasket. so i refilled the entire system, pushed out all the air i could by running the car and squeezing the hoses to force the air out of the top of the system. i then closed it up and let it run for a while. she ran good, no overheating, no problems, fans kicked on and i refilled the overflow bottle. no problems. i then went for a drive. i went maybe a mile, and for some reason, when i boost, i start warming up. so what could be causing my issue. when i stopped i had lots of steam blowing into the overflow tank u can hear it bubbling a LOT. SOMEONE HELP ME. why does it seem to be affected by me boosting? is this another symptom of a bad Head Gasket? please someone help me . send me PM or email me directly, or post here. my email address is 
