bad day for my subaru

[toad]

what a day, 730am on way to bakery for breakfast, subi just stalls and wont start again. park in on side of road. tow it to work at lunchtime and found the cambelt had slipped few teeth. ordered genuine belt and tensioner and put them in. stoked! subi was alive. 7pm 2nyte while waiting in line at kfc. mrs notices steam coming from her side of bonnet. i lift up bonnet and wow coolant everywhere. i have a feeling motors had enuf of life

[lachlan]

the mrs noticed before you ????

wife it

or were you dictracted by pictures of chicken ??

[94 Leone]

He was waiting for the chicken, but anyway, you may have some perforated hoses, check them all, and check their connectors, make sure there's no damage to them. Do a flush of everything, do an oil change, and replace oil filter. Coolant everywhere it sounds like buggered hoses.

[toad]

hahahaha i was choosing what to have for tea lol. had a new radiator and flush coolant and pressure bleed the system just before xmas . left the car running with heaters hot and radiator cap off till heaters where hot and no more air bubbles coming to top. it was coming out of the coolant overflow tank.

[94 Leone]

Acid reflux, she'll be fine while you were deciding what to have for dinner, the car was caughing up hers ;D

edit: over filled it i'd say on a more serious note. If not, then a possible blockage.

[Guest]

While there was coolant everywhere, notice if the car over heated? Blocked thermostat?

[WRXONP]

Coolant pressurising out the overflow normally means blowen head gasket - cylinder pressures are pressurising coolant - did u Give her a rev with ye cap off ? Normally a blowen head gasket will push water out when you rev it

[reaperblitz]

Plus lots of bubbles

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 VADZTER said:

While there was coolant everywhere, notice if the car over heated? Blocked thermostat?

temperature gauge was just above half at the time it had a spew

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 WRXONP said:

Coolant pressurising out the overflow normally means blowen head gasket - cylinder pressures are pressurising coolant - did u Give her a rev with ye cap off ? Normally a blowen head gasket will push water out when you rev it

no i didnt give her a rev. ive had coolant ome out the overflow once before and the radiator was 40% blocked. replaced it just before xmas time. ive bin told to check my waterpump as it may have seized or started to that may have caused the coolant to flow out?

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 reaperblitz said:

Plus lots of bubbles

makes lots of bubbling noises lol

[WRXONP]

A seized water pump would snap the can belt - a water pump with all the fins corroded away will cause major over heating untill the point where the water boils - expands and blows out the overflow

When the cars at operating temp - ad heater is hot - is your bottom radiator hose hot ? If the top hose is hot ad bottom is cold it sounds like a thermostat that's not opening - which would cause over heating

If top and bottom hose are hot - and cara still over heating I would be looking at either electric fans aren't working (obvious to tell) - or head gasket could be pood

Remember the stock temp gauge is basically useless - water temp can get upto near 100 degrees and the gauge still says its at operating temp

[Guest]

i think you should check all your hoses thoroughly and check all your water lines that run across the block because they can corrode over time and leak. happened to my cousin. if all is sweet check if radiator is blocked. run till normal operating temp and check that both end tanks are hot. this will determine whether your radiator is blocked. also if you want you can pull out the thermostat and and put it in some boiling water to see if its operating normally or not. i somehow doubt its headgasket but hey thats just my hunch

cheers muhammad

[WRXONP]

He said he replaced radiator - and like I said if top hose hot and bottom hose cold it means thermostat isn't opening - could also mean radiator blocked but he said he replaced

Also a water leak will not puah water out the overflow

[toad]

im puttin a new cambelt, waterpump etc 2nyte so will no whats happening after then. will also inspect hoses

[turborunner]

could be heater core also as my temp gauge was reading normal but i could hear boiling water and my top hose was hot but buttom was cold and it turned out my heater core was partially blocked