lankanboy1

My car started to over Heat today It havnt went to the redline but it went 3/4 of the way. and i'm also loosing coolent. I loose about 350 Ml every 1000km any Idea whats wrong ? i'm having all this prob after i flused the coolent 2 months a go.

vas25tl

Head gasket?
Try checking the inside of your oil cap; is it milky?

lankanboy1

If it was the head gasket woudnt i get White smoke ?

vas25tl

Good point..
OP: was it smoking?

Where else would the coolant be going?

vas25tl

Sorry, I didn't realize that you were the OP....

vas25tl

How long has it been losing coolant?

01tl4tl

coolant can get inside the oil system or the coolant- depends on which seal area of the head gasket has blown

Or the engine block drain seal or radiator drain seal are leaking

Look inside the radiator- engine cold- anything foamy or milky or oil slick is bad!
and on the oil dipstick- is it magically above full by a quart?
and brown or foamy?

How is the radiator cap? seal looks good and pressure test good?
Do a pressure test of the entire cooling system and see if a hose has a leak or a radiator seam leak or whats happening

When you flushed the coolant- did you open the heater- heater on full hot when you filled the system? if not, a block of air gets released and causes big problems
Do a burping procedure per the book and see if that helps

lankanboy1

The radiator cap is little messy i mean the rubber is ripping a part and i did the pressure test i lost only 2-4 psi in 10 min and my mec said its normal.

I didnt not turn on the heater when i flushed the coolent.

How ?




the 1st time i saw it was missing about a week after i flushed. at that time i drove about 500 km and i had to put in about 1 L ++ coolent in the radiator.

andrew070489

before i got my engine swap my 2.5 was doing that.. no white smoke that i could notice, rough shaky startups, temp. guage all over the place. it ended up being my head gasket.. the pressure built up and melted a hole in my radiator.. get that looked at..

gokartmozart

It is most likely a blown headgasket. I had the same problem, it is not cheap to fix.

andrew070489

no not at all, i paid $3600 for engine, water pump, radiator and timing belt, with some misc parts that got melted. if i could go back in time i would try to atleast replace the gasket yourself and fix the problem, and if it blows then whatever atleast you tried.

lankanboy1

so you suggest that i chnage the gasket Now? i was planing to leave it untill it get worse ever since i had this prob i drove abt 10000 K and its still loosing the same amount

andrew070489

it will get worse if its your gasket.. no question... the one thing you wanto avoid is heading up your engine alot and everything related to it..transmission! i melted alot of stuff bc i waited to the point where i had to have it towed.. trust me the $$ will add up if something like that happens.. it will be one thing after the other, do it now or soon.. take your time and get the manual if you dont already have it.. if timing belt and water pum havent been changed do that or find someone who will.

andrew070489

if your burning white smoke you know for sure.. if thats the case do it to prevent permenant damage to engine.. if you head that engine up it will cook everything possibly cracking your engine and other expensive components.

andrew070489

one last thought.. fill you radiator as you usually would.. drive around do your thing w/e, but when you come home and park the car put some cardboard under your car.. i didnt see if you said the temp guage would read H.. but either way try this 1st see if its just a simple leak that could also cause these symptoms and explain to white smoke.

meazz1

Just a thought.....
I had similar problem, engine was about to go. I bought a JDM engine with 55k for $800. Found a guy on craig's list who charged me $450.00 to put it in.
I bought all the belts and seals, etc.

It's runs great now.

andrew070489

meazz1 what type of engine? does it put out more hp then stock in-line 5?

meazz1

It's just the same identical 2.5 engine which comes for Japan. They gurrantee the mileage for between 35k to 55k.

Car runs really really good.
If you want, I can give the company's ph#. They are in NJ/NY.

andrew070489

its cool i got a used one from miami :-) with 80k rebuilt .. my other one went from bad head gasket at 185k got a 1yr 12k warranty on all labor and parts.. they did a pretty dam good job too..

lankanboy1

The car never went to the H, it only went 3/4 th way there is no leak and it never smokes :S just missing coolent. when it goes to the 3/4 of the way my both fan comes on for abt 5-10 sec then the guage is back to normal.

andrew070489

oh hmm interesting.. you might have something else wrong but keep an eye on it.. im not experienced enough to diagnose the problem now but if i could guess i'd say maybe the thermostat.. anyone have some ideas