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Hey, back again for some help. My engine rapidly heats up, i'll drive not even a kilometer and my engine is almost at half way up the engine temp gauge. Alot of coolant was pissing out of the overflow tank and the rad cap. There both on tight aswell. I'm not running coolant lines to the turbo because I heard that it will heat up the temp of the engine even more. My setup is in my sig. I've been tuned aswell.

I've dumped about 3 litres of coolants back in the rad.

Anyone know why I was pissing out coolant?

Does anyone else experience rapid heating up of there engine.

If I run coolant lines to the turbo will that stop everything?

Am I fawked and my head is going to pop?

 
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Blown Headgasket

Check your plugs for signs in detonation

 
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Yep, looks like as it's a head gasket.

 
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Head gasket.

 
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or radiator cap is bad.

 
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Well head gasket is something that needs to be fixed immediatly. The cap is not as severe, but still needs to be done immediatly!!!

 
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sounds like a head gasket and if it gets worse your gonna have more than just a head gasket problem.

 
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^what they all said it happend to me too

 
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well check the oil, see if its milky. do a compression check. these are all free things. do you have check engine light? dont automatically assume its a head gasket without any kind of proof to back it up

 
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it's a headgasket.

 
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Yeah i also think its headgasket, i have had my headgasket blow many times, so i know what its like.

 
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Never had a head gasket blow, but im going to go against the grain here and say it sounds more like a thermostat not opening all the way from what your saying. Its coming out the Radiotor overflow and Cap? To me that would seem like the system is becoming pressurized and all the fluid can not escape, so its finding the path of least resistance, which would make me think something is cloging it up somewhere, and a part that can be over looked is the thermostat. I dont know but if the other guys say its a head gasket, wouldnt hurt to see if its something easy first, then go further into it. I say start easy and cheep, vs hard and expensive.

 
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either stuck thermostat or a head gasket. Change the $10 part first and see if it helps before you change the head gasket...

 
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I'll tell you right now, it's the headgasket. Don't drive the car AT ALL until you replace it. And get the tuning checked by a different tuner. There's no way for anyone to guess what caused the problem but it could have been air entering the system from a bad radiator cap or a pinched coolant line, etc. If your turbo is a GT, it is both oil and water cooled. You need to run a line for water asap. Hopefully you didn't destroy it.

 
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when people come into our shop and tells us this things about there cars... most guys automatically its the head gasket...we had a guy come in last week with overheating problems similar to what u say and his water pump went... but gearbox is on the right track... first check the oil... if no signs there check/change the raditor cap...another thing is that u might have air bubbles in your system... and your fan might not be turning on.. also another possible reason might be the water pump... then when all that fails last but not least its the head gasket...

 
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First do a combustion gas check that checks for combustion gases in the cooling system. It's a 10 minute check that most shops have the fairly cheap tool and will prolly test for free. I would have to lean on the side of a bad head gasket thou....

 
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Yup, this is a small list of what it might be OTHER THAN a headgasket problem:

-water pump
-radiator cap
-thermostat
-pinched return line
-cooling fans

Those are some possibilities. now if your headgasket is blown bad, your motor would already be destroyed. is the engine light on? do you have problems driving the car, ie does it idle funny, start up wrong, drive like its going over rocks? First thing you need to do if you're still convinced its the gasket is do a coolant pressure test and also a compression test on the motor. Then if you did find its the gasket, get it fixed asap. And then you need to find out why it blew (most likely your head is warped because of it and will need replacing or resurfacing).

 
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I am not sure on this, so I will pose it as a question instead of a solution.

If it is the head gasket, might there be some damage to the radiator as well? When I blew the head gasket in another car (Dodge Gr Caravan), they said that I needed to replace the radiator, also. They said it had to do with the gasket material interacting with the fins in the radiator.

Was that BS?

 
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sounds like your thermostat is shot. if there isn't any oil and and coolant mixed in the radiator or on your dip stick i doubt is the head gasket.

 
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if the car runs it isn't the head gasket.

the thermostat might be faulty
or
the the cooling fan switch is bad

 
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Ive known many people who would drive their car normally without knowing they had a blown headgasket.

 
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So I guess that from all of the times I had seals leak on my headgasket and drove the car for miles and miles, I was imagining it when I took the gasket out and saw the breaks and the seals?

 
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Radiator Cap - Check the rubber seal for wear
Pinched Line - replace with new line
Thermostat: Costs $20 bucks tops (undo top hose remove and replace with spring downwards)
Cooling fans - (should turn on when car is not in motion when at operating temp)
Check oil for milkyness. IF yes you got a blown HG
Water Pump should last the life of the car but **** happens so check that

I had the same problem ask Gearbox, coolant splatter and overflow. In the end it was a bad radiator cap. It was steaming like a kettle

 
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a great excuse to get a sexy greddy or spoon cap from ebay haha

 
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Thanks for all the help fellas. I believe its the rad cap. The oil is fine you can see on my engine where the coolant is coming out. either the rad cap or the over flow.


If it was the head gasket wouldnt there be coolant all over the block? its only coming out where the rad cap is located that general area.

 
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NO, what happends is the gasket blows out and then combustion gases and pressure are blown into the cooling passsage in the head/block . This then causes the car to over heat and causes lots of pressure in the cooling system and forces out the coolant eitehr out the cap or the overflow. And for the

This is incorrect ive done MANY of head gaskets on cars that i drove into the shop. Many even had craked heads.

 
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ya i could drive mine it was a small leak so the car just idled like crap til the coolant burned out the cylinder and then it drove fine.,

 
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PLEASE Plug the coolant lines into the turbo. For the love of god you're frying that turbo by running it dry. The oil is there for the bearings, there's not enough to do any cooling, the water is there to cool the turbo. There is no appreciable jump in temperature from plumbing the turbo into the water system. Not enough coolant goes through it to cause a big jump in temps.

Check stupid **** first. Draining the oil is easy to do, and its a decient check for HG failures. I wouldn't pull the head until you're pretty sure thats the problem.

 
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My cars been randomly overheating and the heat quits when I'm stopped. It's been like that since winter and I haven't figured it out yet. The first time it overheated i replaced the thermostat. It didn't do it for again for a long time until I got in a wreck. Past couple weeks its been doing it a lot more and the overflow tank was full and spraying out coolant. I took it to Honda and they couldn't get it to overheat or figure it out. They said its holding pressure. I replaced the thermostat again, replaced the radiator cap, changed coolant and let all air bubbles out. Oil and coolant looked fine when i changed them. last time the temp gauge said it was overheating the fans weren't on when i popped the hood. but if i turn the fans on when its overheating it doesn't help. It USUALLY happens when i'm at a drive-thru but sometimes when i'm driving. and almost always lasts less than a minute. I'm doing a compression test tomorrow. then a leak down test when i get a chance. Hopefully that gives me an answer.

If the water pump was bad would that be why the heat goes cold when I'm stopped?

 
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yup i'd say waterpump is a good bet. it may be able to spin slowly when moving but at a stop its not turning and moving the coolant.