So after recently reinstalling the cylinder head on my car, I refilled and bled the coolant system according to the Helms manual. After running the car a bit, my coolant reservoir dropped just slightly below the MAX mark and stabilized. I went to run the car this morning to make sure everything was still holding up and after about 15 minutes of idling I started to get a slight amount of smoke coming off of the radiator. It's about 63 degrees out here and the car had not fully warmed up yet and was idling at about 1000 RPM (maybe slightly less) and the radiator fans have not clicked on at all. Upon noticing the smoke, I saw that my reservoir reached about a 1/4" above the MAX mark and for a short moment had large air bubbles surfacing in it, one at a time, and about two seconds apart. With the information at hand, can someone tell me if something is wrong or if this is normal? Is the smoke just grime burning off? Is my car overheating? Should my fans be clicking on at this ambient temperature? Why is their air in my system? I'm freak'n out man!

 

relax, its fine

 

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Alright, I'm not freak'n out anymore. Thanks!

 

If your car was over heating you would see th gauge go all the way to hot if it works properly.

The smoking seems like its just a little coolant you got on the radiator and its burning off. Make sure you bleed the coolant seems so there is no air bubbles tho.

There is air in your system cause you put a head on, which is allowing air to get into the coolant system. All you must do is properly bleed it so its all out

 

That's the thing; I thought I had bled it thoroughly because everything settled down and its behavior stabilized as I continued running the car, but now these large bubbles showed up and then went away. Also, there are no symptoms of improper head sealing, the engine is running well, so it just stumped me a little bit. Anyway, even if there was air in the system, if it pushes its way into the reservoir it's logically still being bled from the system right?