pow3rslave
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i've got a vp v6 and a year or so back i had a header tank blow on my radiator, i bought a cheapie chinese one off ebay and it worked fine for a bit. anyway here's the recent issues and my fixes
sorry for the epic post, but is there anything anyone can suggest for my car holding too much pressure? is it possibly something like the water pump being boned from spewing all the coolant a couple of times?
- the spring in the cap that came with the cheapie rusted out, replaced it with a tridon cap.
- hose from water pump to the inlet manifold blew off on the freeway and dumped all the coolant, pulled in to my folks fairly quick. did a flush/new thermostat/new coolant the next day. spotted the passenger side front welch plug was corroded, but cbf'd then, the overflow bottles out hose was crimped shut by the battery and couldn't flow, cut the end off it
- a month or so back the hose from the water pump to the inlet manifold blew off on the freeway and dumped all my coolant, but i pulled in to my folks fairly quick and left it there. and did a flush/new thermostat/new coolant the next day. i also spotted the passenger side front welch plug was corroded, but cbf'd at the time, and that the overflow bottles out hose was crimped over from being under the battery and couldn't flow.
- weeks later the same hose blew (pump>inlet manifold), this time it cracked off the plastic joiner, put a new one on and maybe lost a tiny bit of the old one inside the inlet manifold :whistling.
- finally just got round to doing the dying welch plug, also cut a bit of length off the top radiator hose because it wasn't sealing. even after that i'm seeing drips on the charcoal canister.
- the hose out of the overflow bottle always looks bone dry inside, and the car never gets over 1/4 temp. i think the radiator fan is boned because the mong that had the car before me put a 30A fuse in the 20A slot for it.
sorry for the epic post, but is there anything anyone can suggest for my car holding too much pressure? is it possibly something like the water pump being boned from spewing all the coolant a couple of times?