hey, sorry to bring this topic back up, but today my car overheated again in the usual place(getting off the gardiner on spadina and stopping at the first light on spadina, that steep uphill road in front of the Rogers Centre), and i kept driving and it stayed up this time, usually it goes back down almost instantly after getting over thehill…so i pulled into the Petro there and turned the engine off, the bubbling sound came again so i popped the hood, sure enough the reservoir tank was full (almost to the top) of coolant and it was boiling in there…i let it cool a bit, then(with my thick safety gloves of course) took off the cap of the radiator, and it steamed out a bit(since i let it cool down a bit)
k so here’s my question…if i have a blown head gasket, would it cause the coolant to heat up? how does the headgasket being blown cause this to happen? I’ve tried yahooing this, but it’s all topics about “how to know” if you have a blown headgasket or “what caused overheating” type of stuff…
I just want to know since i think something else caused this engine to overheat which caused the head gasket to blow…the previous owner just replaced the water pump…could it be that the radiator is bad? which is causing it to overheat? or my clutch fan? the fan spins, but i dont know if it’s spinning on both speeds(clutchtype fans have two speeds i think? one constantly on, then when it heats up, spins faster?)
thanks in advance
That’s your thermostat, almost indefinitely - even though you already changed it.
Change it (maybe use the Nissan part if you didn’t…?) and flush the system. You could also try the “boiling water” test to see if it opens correctly.
Oh and don’t drive while it’s overheating, or it could quickly become your head gasket as a result of the overheating that only your thermostat caused!
Good luck.