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Drove the wifes honda the other day and noticed the heater wasn't working, then when I got the speed up it did. No biggie. Took it again today and same thing, so now it isn't just my mind. I'm thinking air in the system even though I haven't opened the coolant system in probably a year. Get home from work and pop the hood...coolant overflowing from the overflow and leaking all over the front of the engine. Damn. Pull the dipstick and oil cap...no milkshake, so far so good. After an hour I pull the radiator cap. As I break the seal, a LOT of air goes sucking into the system so it is low low low, but the overfill is running over. I put a rag down into the overflow and pull it out and it smells like oil to me. Tomorrow in the light I'll fill the radiator and turn the car on and watch for freaking bubbles, don't have a leakdown tester.
The pain of it all is that for two months I've been trying to get my wife to get out and just test drive new cars since she keeps saying she wants one. There is always some excuse. We should have traded this thing in two months ago, now I'm looking at a massive job to replace this thing.
I'm just hoping it is a head gasket and not a cracked cylinder, which it kinda sounds like since water isn't getting into the oil.
The pain of it all is that for two months I've been trying to get my wife to get out and just test drive new cars since she keeps saying she wants one. There is always some excuse. We should have traded this thing in two months ago, now I'm looking at a massive job to replace this thing.
I'm just hoping it is a head gasket and not a cracked cylinder, which it kinda sounds like since water isn't getting into the oil.