I was driving today, and my needle shoots 3/4 of the way up.. I turn on my heat and it doesn't help at all. I pull over and notice the steam coming out of my hood.

Pop the hood and I see coolant sprayed all over underneath the dizzy, a little bit on the lower radiator hose, on the under side of the upper radiator hose, the heater hose and some sprayed as far back as the intake manifold hose. I couldnt find the source of the leak.

I'm in some city about 20 miles away from home so I ask for directions to autozone. Bought a bottle of coolant, waited for my car to cool down and filled it up. I had lost a good portion of my coolant (I had to use the whole bottle to fill it up). I started up my car and everything was cool.

I drove home and when I got home, I checked my engine bay. I did not see coolant on any of the hoses. What's the deal????

 

Did you hit a puddle?

Bong> You


Maybe a fitting for one of the hose's moved enough or expanded enough under the heat. then when you let it cool down it went back to normal. GL this is something that would happen to me.

 

its possible their was water, does anyone know if their are any wires for the gauge cluster that run on the underside of the car?

 

You probably have a very slow, pin-hole size leak in one of your hoses. If it is under your intake manifold, it will be very hard to see. It will bleed enough coolant off to eventually overheat the engine, and by that time, it is spraying out of a hose somewhere, because the pressure builds up as temp rises. When you filled up with coolant, the system is functioning perfectly normal until that small leak bleeds enough coolant out of the system to cause another overheating issue.

What did your temp gauge say on the way home? Was it back to normal?

 

Look over very carefully .Check all spark plugs make sure thety are dry .If they aren't . . .. . .Blown head !Sorry .

 

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I'll do that after my next drive

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Sam92Teg &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">You probably have a very slow, pin-hole size leak in one of your hoses. If it is under your intake manifold, it will be very hard to see. It will bleed enough coolant off to eventually overheat the engine, and by that time, it is spraying out of a hose somewhere, because the pressure builds up as temp rises. When you filled up with coolant, the system is functioning perfectly normal until that small leak bleeds enough coolant out of the system to cause another overheating issue.

What did your temp gauge say on the way home? Was it back to normal?</TD></TR></TABLE>

The gauge was normal after i filled it back up. and I didn't see any coolant anywhere after i parked it after a 30 minute drive.. but if it starts to overheat again, this is probably the problem..


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nope, unless water is yellow/green

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by PLAGUED_DB7 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Did you hit a puddle?

Bong&gt; You


Maybe a fitting for one of the hose's moved enough or expanded enough under the heat. then when you let it cool down it went back to normal. GL this is something that would happen to me.


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I'm gonna ride around with an extra bottle of coolant just in case that was the problem and it self-corrected itself

thanks for the replies.. anyone have anymore explanations? it was completely bone dry after i drove home.. i'm puzzled as hell.. i was afraid it was the headgasket because it was all underneath the dizzy.. but if that was the case, what would adding coolant do to it? if anything more coolant would be blastin everywhere