jkalex05

My car was fine up until a couple of days ago when all of a sudden my car overheated rapidly. I had to add water to the radiator and reservoir and luckily the car started up with no problems and temp read fine.

Now ive had to add water to the reservoir and radiator everyday for the past several days. Today I noticed what looked like oil or almost like a brown watered down paint coming from my radiator.

Is oil mixing with the water in the coolant. What could be causing this? Please help.

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dly91

possibly need to replace your water pump if its always over heating..

Former User

Unfortunately, this is almost surely a blown head gasket.

macson

^^^ That'd be it.

yesSiReK

time for a new motor!!!

Micha

Drain your oil, take a picture and post it here.

jkalex05

The last couple of times I drove it, after a couple minutes of driving. After turning the engine off I could hear a loud noise like pressure coming out of something. I could see steam coming from around the radiator engine area. So this is a blown gasket huh...

Micha

Drain your oil and get back to us.

It could also be your radiator going bad.

Is your car and auto or manual?

jkalex05

Manual and I also have a b16a2 swap.

Linked

i would have thought the headgasket was blown because oil got in the coolant

but the idea of a waterpump going out seems ideal

water pump goes bad >not fast enough cooling > blowing the headgasket

jkalex05

Headgasket was fine, there was no oil in the coolant. Apparently the culprit was the fan not turning on at all which lead to it overheading and caused a hose to rupture. Leading to loss of coolant and overheating.

I changed the bad hose and bypassed the turn on of the fan by exposing the two wires that go into the switch for the temp sensor and crossed them. That caused my fan to be on whenever the car is on.

Car is running good! Its a tank!

alphalanos

It shouldnt be on all the time. Put the wiring back the way it was and check all the hoses and rad for cracks. Might want to change the water pump if it hasnt been done. And the timing belt and tensioner at the same time.