OVERHEATING?
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krash kendall
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If it is leaking then the system will not maintain pressure thus allowing the coolant to expand into a gasseous state (boiling) resulting in an overheat situation.
For every lbs of pressure it raises the boiling point 3*. Your typical cooling system will run about 15 lbs so you have a potential of 45*. If you have a leak you can be loosing a lot of cooling capability. That can be a big portion of your overheating problem. When is it overheating? At a stop or while on the road. Typically if you are overheating at a stop, that also indicates that you don't have enough fan and if you are overheating while moving(say freeway) you don't have enough radiator. When looking for a radiator a common misconception is that more cores is better. What you want to look for in a radiator is how many fins per square inch. What you want is the most surface area. If two radiators being equal thickness say 3 inches, and one is a 4 core and the other is a 2 core each with the same fins per square inch, the 2 core will outcool it. The core will be fatter giving more surface area to cool and the 4 core will have a gap between each row with less surface area. Typically you will only find a fatter core in aluminium radiators because aluminium is stronger than the copper core though copper is better at dissapating heat.
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thehueypilot
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yah, when uve got coolant everywhere but ur radiator, temps gunna go way up... had to pull over several times. also check ur thermostat too, might need to be swaped out. the bolt on the underside of thermostat housing is a pain in the arse to get to, cant use a ratchet. I had to bend my oil dipstick to get to it....little turn by little turn. make sure u put ALOT of sticky blue stuff back on the gasket when u loosin the therm. housing, and make sure the gasket it perfectly centered, or else ur coolants going to be leaking out of there too.
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