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haurp00ned
Joined: Sat Sep 03, 2011 10:12 pm Posts: 161 Location: coolum beach
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hi all, just wondering this has been happening alot, when driving for like 20mins in my 92 sierra all the coolant in the radiator flows into the overflow bottle and then all spills outta the overflow bottle, and all the coolant in the radiator what is left is all foaming. was just wondering if anyone knew why this would be happening? any help would be great cheers.
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JrZook
Joined: Tue Aug 08, 2006 11:30 pm Posts: 5517 Location: Holland Park
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 Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2012 5:25 pm |
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Sounds like the cylinders are pressuring the cooling system. Could be a headgasket
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Stevo87
Joined: Thu Mar 29, 2012 4:21 pm Posts: 106 Location: Melb west side
Vehicle: Suzuki Jimny
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Could be a faulty radiator cap
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want33s

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Joined: Fri Nov 16, 2007 10:30 pm Posts: 8134 Location: Sunshine Coast Qld
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Daves4wd

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Joined: Fri Aug 26, 2011 3:17 pm Posts: 1286 Location: Melbourne
Vehicle: Swb Sierra twin lock 32s 6.5s
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I'd be putting my money on a head gasket or head it's happend in my other car witch was a rotary and it was caused by a corroded housing different engine but same thing pretty much applys
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haurp00ned
Joined: Sat Sep 03, 2011 10:12 pm Posts: 161 Location: coolum beach
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i have replaced the radiator cap
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jimbo_jones

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Joined: Sat Jul 19, 2008 11:30 pm Posts: 4361 Location: gong
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caps not the problem you ether have a cracked head or a blown head gasket
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zukenutter

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Joined: Sun Feb 08, 2009 10:30 pm Posts: 9045 Location: Brisneyland
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haurp00ned wrote: i have replaced the radiator cap Did the problem start after doing this? Is it a genuine cap?
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haurp00ned
Joined: Sat Sep 03, 2011 10:12 pm Posts: 161 Location: coolum beach
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no the problem started before changing the cap
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Gwagensteve
Joined: Thu Feb 26, 2009 10:30 pm Posts: 13008 Location: Melbourne
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Xlots it's a head gasket.
Overheated it?
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d1mitch
Joined: Fri Feb 03, 2012 1:35 pm Posts: 58
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as all the above. 99.9999999% chance its the headgasket. what colour is the radiator fluid? is there any milky-ness in there? is there continuous small bubles coming up in the fluid when you have bled the system?
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stocker
Joined: Wed Dec 08, 2010 7:16 am Posts: 941 Location: Shidoni!
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you may not get a colour change in the coolant if its just dropped the gasket between the cylinder and water gallery.
Yay for head gaskets, Get it compression tested if you still don't think its a head gasket. then we can say "theres your sign"
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