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Hello friends,
im working on my brothers car that is overheating and I’m a bit lost.
he has a Dewitt’s radiator and lingenfelter oil cooler and when I replaced the valve on his radiator and tried to fill the coolant reserve it emptied a couple times then on the 3rd it started to overflow a bit so I turned the car off and now the tank is almost empty. Is this normal?
God Bless,
-Will Coolant tank almost empty after turning car off
Hello friends,
im working on my brothers car that is overheating and I’m a bit lost.
he has a Dewitt’s radiator and lingenfelter oil cooler and when I replaced the valve on his radiator and tried to fill the coolant reserve it emptied a couple times then on the 3rd it started to overflow a bit so I turned the car off and now the tank is almost empty. Is this normal?
It is. You've got a big slug of air in the system. It should burp out if you keep running the motor with the cap off, adding coolant when it runs low. You can prevent the problem in the first place by using a vacuum filler.
You say it's overheating. Was that before you worked on the car, or after? How hot is it getting?
It is. You've got a big slug of air in the system. It should burp out if you keep running the motor with the cap off, adding coolant when it runs low. You can prevent the problem in the first place by using a vacuum filler.
You say it's overheating. Was that before you worked on the car, or after? How hot is it getting?
thanks for the tip! I had meant to respond earlier but I wasn’t signed in, the car was overheating before I worked on it and I got the air bubble out by adding coolant then closing the cap and it worked itself out. The car was overheating before I touched it and my brother had reported it hitting 260 but I think he may have exaggerated a bit. Under my car it only got to ~250 while I was giving it fluids and after I got the bubble out it was idling just under 220 for 15 minutes straight in the hot garage. I’d call today a success!
Never tried this on a Vette, but I did on a Chevelle with an air lock in the engine. I fought that thing and couldn't get it to come out. Happened I heard a tip and took it to a parking ramp with steep ramps. I took it from ground level up about 4 levels in the engine hot, low gear and kept the RPMs up. Well, it blew the stuck air out of the block into the radiator, car was fixed. Don't know if it will work on a Vette but it's worth a try if nothing else does. Good luck.
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