Antsmash
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Hey guys,
I got my water pump replaced today because I was having some circulation issues.
Mechanics finished it up this afternoon and I drove it home in about 30min of peak hour traffic. Temp was at 1/3 whole way and I was quite happy.
I got home and sat in the driveway for a few min, just to make 100% everything was fine. After about 3min temp started to rise and I thought, "Oh god, here we go again." I then heard a gargling sound which sounded like it was from the heater core. I turned the car off straight away, got out, and there was a very large amount of coolant that came from car.
I searched where it had come from, the bottom rad hose was fine and was bone dry, so I came to the conclusion it must of come from the Overflow Tank. Checked the level and for some reason the tank is well over max reading, and it think it was before that too. Will this be the cause of the problem? And somehow since so much pressure was release it dumped what was about 4 litres of coolant on my drive. It popped the little hose out of the overflow neck too.
I just replaced the radiator cap about 3 weeks ago when troubleshooting. Do you think this could be faulty? Thanks.
I got my water pump replaced today because I was having some circulation issues.
Mechanics finished it up this afternoon and I drove it home in about 30min of peak hour traffic. Temp was at 1/3 whole way and I was quite happy.
I got home and sat in the driveway for a few min, just to make 100% everything was fine. After about 3min temp started to rise and I thought, "Oh god, here we go again." I then heard a gargling sound which sounded like it was from the heater core. I turned the car off straight away, got out, and there was a very large amount of coolant that came from car.
I searched where it had come from, the bottom rad hose was fine and was bone dry, so I came to the conclusion it must of come from the Overflow Tank. Checked the level and for some reason the tank is well over max reading, and it think it was before that too. Will this be the cause of the problem? And somehow since so much pressure was release it dumped what was about 4 litres of coolant on my drive. It popped the little hose out of the overflow neck too.
I just replaced the radiator cap about 3 weeks ago when troubleshooting. Do you think this could be faulty? Thanks.