Overheated 94 Civic

Axel Breaker · 09-05-2009

Hey Guys, I have a 1994 Civic DX and my son was driving it yesterday and noticed a hot smell (A/C isn't working so the windows were down) looked at the temp gauge and it was on the H, he pulled over and shut it down left it and came back in an hour, poured in a couple bottles of water and drove it home....temp stayed at the normal area which is just below the icon symbol in the middle part of the gauge face. I took it out this morning after I made sure the cooling system was completely full and the oil was fine (no water in the oil, and no oil in the radiator) so hopefully we didn't do any damage to the head gasket. It ran fine, temp was normal the whole time (a 30 min. drive thru traffic and some highway miles) and the elec. fan was working as normal.

So my ques. is....I noticed the rad. overflow bottle does not have a tube on the inside of the cap so it can pull the coolant back out of the bottle as needed. All the other cars I've had have had a tube that runs down to the lower portion of the overflow bottle so it will pull coolant back out. Is it supposed to have a tube on the nipple on the inside of the overflow cap?
Thanks for looking and please let me know!

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Axel Breaker · 09-06-2009

Can anyone look at their overflow cap and tell me if they have a tube on the inside of it that dips into the bottle? Thanks.

04 Honda Civic · 09-06-2009

7th gens have a hose, I have no idea about your car, but check to see if you have a hose off the resi instead of a tube.