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I am really confused! I thought for sure head gasket failure? I have constant pressure on upper radatior hose. Coolant occasionally dumps out the over flow in resevoir. This started about two months ago. My mechanic took loose the lower radior hose. It lost a little coolant so I had to add some. I did not mix the coolant still using the orange stuff. I never really got the coolant levels back to normal. I would drive it and the coolant light would come on so I would add a little more. I fianally filled the coolant all the way up and put a bottle on the over flow hose to catch the coolant if it puked out. It puked several bottles of coolant out the first two weeks. I would check it every couple days and dump it out. After several weeks it stoped dumping as much just a little hear and there. I would switch tunes after fill ups tring to see which would get the best fuel milage. On my high tunes a little coolant would come out the over flow here and there but as I got to the lowest hp tune it dumped another whole bottle of coolant out the over flow. The upper radior hose is swollen all the time with constant pressure on it, so much that you can hardly squeeze it. It does not matter cold or hot. The coolant level is below the cold fill line by about two inches, but the low coolant light quit comming on. I thought for sure head gasket. Before we started to tear it down I went to the auto part store and bought a
Head Gasket Combustion Leak Test. We did the test and no combustion comming from the coolant resivor. I then tested the test by putting it near my exhaust. It instantly changed colors. Why do I have so much pressure in my cooling system? I have tried to bleed the air out of the system with the bleeder screw, it will bubble until you take the cap of the resivor the it has a steady flow of coolant. It has never run hot and it runs great. My heat works while cold and the engine heats normally while at idle. No other symptoms. If any one has experienced this or has any advice it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!!
Head Gasket Combustion Leak Test. We did the test and no combustion comming from the coolant resivor. I then tested the test by putting it near my exhaust. It instantly changed colors. Why do I have so much pressure in my cooling system? I have tried to bleed the air out of the system with the bleeder screw, it will bubble until you take the cap of the resivor the it has a steady flow of coolant. It has never run hot and it runs great. My heat works while cold and the engine heats normally while at idle. No other symptoms. If any one has experienced this or has any advice it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!!