Thanks. In fact I did refill the radiator recently and the last time it
overflowed, it was more like foam (like the end of overflowing which
might be wishful thinking).
But I am surprised that overfilling should lead to overflowing
since water does not expand that much. [On the other hand, I haven't
yet built a capture bottle as described last Spring by a number of
people and all my other more mundane cars have them.] But interestingly,
the fluid in the radiator hasn't dropped much below the neck and no core
is showing. BTW, the radiator was recored last year!
And I will change the radiator cap anyway
since it is muchos years old and I really did not believe the cracked
head theory because I've had that condition on other cars and in no way
does this mess resemble that mess.
Bill
On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, David Councill
wrote:
> My two top guesses are:
> 1. Overfilled radiator - especially if filled when the water was cool.
> Water expands when it is heated. Plus the water would not circulate as well
> causing the quicker temperature rise.
>
> 2. Bad radiator cap - not holding pressure
>
> I have my doubts about the cracked head theory so I hope that Bill didn't
> "freak out" on that one. I'd check the easy stuff first.
>
> David
> 67 BGT
> 71 BGT
>
>
> At 07:45 PM 7/19/00 -0400, MGTD1952@cs.com wrote:
> >In a message dated 7/19/00 9:49:46 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> >saidel@crab.rutgers.edu writes:
> >
> ><<
> > What else might I look for in symptoms and what other possible dysfunction
> > could be
> > signalled by this non-invited behavior?
> > >>
> >
> >Did you recently top off the radiator? An overfill may overflow the first
> >few times you run it.
>
>
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