[Twaib]

Hello!!
My car pushed the lower hose from the thermostat housing and i returned it.. I changed the thermostat and it was okay.
Then it blew a hole on the radiator and i sealed it' and i added water for a while just to see how it will behave.. Then it blew again a hole on a radiator and i fixed it. But this time i lost all the water in the engine and the car shut itself down when i tried to switch it on it started roughly so i shut it down again, but this time the car temperature was high. I added water and i realized all the water i was adding was coming out of the hole on the radiator, technically it was leaking again. This time i noticed the temperature rising and i stopped the car before it reached higher temperatures and then i left it cool off after about 5 hours i added water about 1.5 litres and the temperature did not rise so i drove the car back home. When i removed my radiator for repair i noticed that the radiator looks like it has expanded and the right and left sides and form some sort of a bend like a bow to some degree. I have checked my oil to see if it has a milkshake look but it looks normal. I also don't see white smoke off my tale pipes. What is the problem? Do i have a failed gasket? Or is it just my radiator is clogged? I assume that if my engine compression ratio was off or gasket was leaking i would have got a code from the engine telling me that. But the only code i have ever got is for a bad 02 sensor. What could be the problem here?

 

[sdspeed]

Well, the only way to get answers now is to put a good clean radiator in it and see what happens next.
No visual problems with exhaust smoke ,oil/water contamination, it over-heating or codes are all good signs.
The radiator is the weak link!

 

[Twaib]

Well, the only way to get answers now is to put a good clean radiator in it and see what happens next.
No visual problems with exhaust smoke ,oil/water contamination, it over-heating or codes are all good signs.
The radiator is the weak link!

oky thanks. i appriciate your advice, i was also thinking of changing the radiator and put a new one in. because it also looks beaten up and it somehow bent from both sides like it has expanded. i thought also that maybe it is clogged. plus the car seem to over heat only when i have lost some water in the radiator. if i add some water it comes back to normal. and as i have said, i don see the white smoke or oil/water contamination. the engine oil seem to be in a good condition. i will do what you recommend that is to change the radiator as a whole unit.
Thank you very much.

 

[Donald E George]

Replace with a Denso unit. Sparkplugs.com et.al.

 

[sdspeed]

It depends on whats available in his country but Denso, Spectra are a few.