bey

help>>.. anyone know why my coolent hose would blow up and shoot coolent all over my engine bay and make my engine over heat. ... .. this is the 2nd time this happen in 2 weeks.. the 1st hose that blew up was the hose that connected to the thermostat housing to the intake manifold. 2nd time was today.. the upper radiator hose blew up... the one that connects from the engine head to top of radiator... there was like a 3 inch ripe in the middle of the hose... I'm thinking the hoses are just getting old.. but this never happend to me before and they both only blew up when i'm beating on the car... could my thermostat be stuck.. how would i know.. or could my cap but junk.. could there be something stuck in my coolent system.. should i get it flush.... this **** is pissing me off... also.. the upper coolent hose seems to get super hot while the lower hose just stays warm.. is this nomal

also does anyone know how to protech the oil dips stick for melting ... mines keep melting/shrinking and i'm sick of getting a new. I'm guessing the turbo manifold is too hot.. would thermo rap do anything to protech it...

thanks..

*93 civic ex
*95 z6 motor (80,000miles)
*greddy turbo & intercooler
*greddy turbo timer
*greddy fmu
*msd 6a ignition
*msd spark plug wires
*msd distributor cap
*msd blaster coil 3
*ngk spark plugs
*b&m short shifter
*b&m fuel pressure regulator &gauge
*thermal turbo exhaust system
*pwr aluminum radiator
*slim fal fan
*str fuel fail
*missing link map bypass valve
*blitz blow-off valve
*field boxer sfc fuel/vtec controller
*auto meter gauges (air/fuel, oil presser, and boost)
*act heavy duty pressure plate clutch with street disc
*walbro 255lph high pressure fuel pump
*apexi avc-r boost controller



Modified by bey at 8:22 PM 6/21/2004

bey

anyone?

solsi2000

that doesnt sound too good... maybe you should just take it into a shop and have them look at it. I would say it could be your cooling system.

EG6 SiR

what kind of radiator cap do you have? Is it OEM? It sounds like the excess pressure in your cooling system is not overflowing into the resevior. The OEM cap is supposed to hold 1.1 bar and once the pressure gets over that the cap will let the excess pressure overflow.

Outrun

Sounds like each hose blew up only once. How old were those hoses?

bey

i have a pwr 15psi cap... and yea.. each hose only blew once... they were the factory hose. but why should they blow now... could it be because i cranked up the boost to 1 bar and drive it like that daily...

pancake56

you check with greddy to see if this was a common problem? this just seems odd that your car is running hot enough to melt a dipstick. obviously it is running way too hot. might wanna invest in a bigger intercooler. Or it could just be a big coincidence that both blew. Wait a couple of days and see if the new hoses blow. if not, nothing wrong, nothing to fix.

Tw1n Turb0 Z

Dude

Almost without a doubt im going to say its a blown headgasket. I'm surprised no'one jumped on this sooner.

Typically what happens with a blown headgasket is that you have coolant passeges that go through the head, and when the headgasket goes....it allows air from the cylinders to escape into the coolant passeges. This pressurizes your coolant system like no other, and basically just keeps blowing radiator hoses or other small coolant hoses that could be weak and brittle from age. Basically you replace the blown hose-the next weak link in the coolant system goes. Its going to keep doing this until you fix the headgasket

bey

damm.. i hope its not the head gasket.... but that sounds like that just could be it.. damm.
thanks

Setsuna F Seiei

yup chances are it might me a broken head gasket, jsut happened to come across similar problem with a DSM with a turbo kit recently hooked up on a 100K + miles stock 420A engine internals and then all of a sudden had coolant problems: the problem was the head gasket