So I have a slight issue with my cooling system.
A couple weeks ago I pulled into a parking lot after driving for awhile. I sat with the car idling for awhile with no problems. As soon as I turned the car off BOOM. A big bang and then smoke everywhere. Also coolant everywhere, which meant at least I wasn't low on coolant. It turned out to be the radiator hose coming off the tstat housing. The house literally exploded.
I replaced the hose and all was well. The next day I went for a fifteen minute drive and when I stopped the car, BOOM again. This time it blew the hose off. So I removed the tstat hoping that was the problem. In florida it's pretty hot and the tstat isn't very essential to warming up. Both of these times the temp guage was fine, but there was a ton of steam after the boom.
Now a couple weeks since then with everyhitng being fine (still no tstat) a new problem arose. I was sitting in a drive thru and all of a sudden I see some spoke from under the hood and I look down to an overheating gauge. As soon as I press the gas to move to a parking space....BOOM. I pop the hood to see the entire top of the burp tank had blown off (little black thing the radiator cap goes on on the driver's side). Rather annoyed I finished my food letting the engine cool down, patched the tank as best I could and drove a mile home.
I changed the burp tank out with another, changed the oil, changed the coolant and let the engine run for about 20 minutes while cleaning up. I didn't get to see the gauge, but right as I was about to leave there was another BOOM. The top blew off again.
I'm fresh out of burp tanks now and looking for a cause to this problem. What could be causing this? It drove fine for a couple weeks so I have my doubts that the radiator is not efficient or the coolant hoses are clogged.
Any Ideas? I have a couple brewing around, but wanted to see what you guys think.
The water pump was replaced at the motor swap about 12k miles ago.
A couple weeks ago I pulled into a parking lot after driving for awhile. I sat with the car idling for awhile with no problems. As soon as I turned the car off BOOM. A big bang and then smoke everywhere. Also coolant everywhere, which meant at least I wasn't low on coolant. It turned out to be the radiator hose coming off the tstat housing. The house literally exploded.
I replaced the hose and all was well. The next day I went for a fifteen minute drive and when I stopped the car, BOOM again. This time it blew the hose off. So I removed the tstat hoping that was the problem. In florida it's pretty hot and the tstat isn't very essential to warming up. Both of these times the temp guage was fine, but there was a ton of steam after the boom.
Now a couple weeks since then with everyhitng being fine (still no tstat) a new problem arose. I was sitting in a drive thru and all of a sudden I see some spoke from under the hood and I look down to an overheating gauge. As soon as I press the gas to move to a parking space....BOOM. I pop the hood to see the entire top of the burp tank had blown off (little black thing the radiator cap goes on on the driver's side). Rather annoyed I finished my food letting the engine cool down, patched the tank as best I could and drove a mile home.
I changed the burp tank out with another, changed the oil, changed the coolant and let the engine run for about 20 minutes while cleaning up. I didn't get to see the gauge, but right as I was about to leave there was another BOOM. The top blew off again.
I'm fresh out of burp tanks now and looking for a cause to this problem. What could be causing this? It drove fine for a couple weeks so I have my doubts that the radiator is not efficient or the coolant hoses are clogged.
Any Ideas? I have a couple brewing around, but wanted to see what you guys think.
The water pump was replaced at the motor swap about 12k miles ago.
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