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Re: Overheating
| Posted By: | buz |
| Posted On: | September 06, 2003 at 11:32 pm GMST |
wut's the exact coolant history since you got the radiator?
you are not losing coolant?
no collapsed radiator hoses?
sounds like the rad to me...
KB wrote:
> I've got an 83 Celica GT (not
> GTS) that has an overheating p
> roblem. The car has 273,000 mi
> les on it. When the problem f
> irst started, I replaced the t
> hermostat. The car has a radi
> ator that is a little over a y
> ear old, so I don't see how th
> e radiator could be the proble
> m. I've replaced several of t
> he hoses, the water pump belt,
> the fan clutch, and the radia
> tor cap. I've also had the en
> gine pressure tested and the w
> ater pump tested. Then we rep
> laced the thermostat again jus
> t in case the first replacemen
> t was defective.
>
> If I run the heater, sometimes
> it will stay in the normal zo
> ne and sometimes it will boil
> over. If I don't run the heat
> er, it is guaranteed to overhe
> at. I don't know what else I
> can do to this car. Does anyo
> ne have any suggestions? It d
> oesn't leak any fluid either.
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