A few nights ago two coolant hoses gave out. Lost a lot if not all my coolant. Replaced #1 and #18 hose in the picture. I was ready to fill coolant and did the following.
Raised front end up a couple feet, put the temp setting to high, open the bleeder screw, poured coolant in the expansion tank while squeezing the hoses. I poured in about a quarter of the gallon jug before it wouldn't take anymore which I thought was odd.
I then tightened the bleeder screw, started the car with high fan setting and hot temp setting and waited for the car to get warmed up. While I waited i tried to squeeze the various coolant hoses to get the coolant flowing. Eventually the coolant from the expansion tank started to bubble and overflow instead of going down so I opened up the bleeder valve and hot steam was coming out and no coolant. Too much coolant was overflowing even when i tried to gas it, so i shut it down.
The level obviously dropped to near empty so I refilled again, closed the bleeder valve, and started the car. Same thing happened. After a few times I shut it down for the day frustrated. This morning I tried the same process and when I open up the bleeder valve/screw, coolant is flowing out but the expansion tank keeps overflowing. I can't imagine that i have the right amount of coolant in bc when I squeeze the hoses I can't feel the coolant running through, especially the bottom hose that connects to the radiator.
I've had a oil leak in the head gasket for a while now but the motor is going to be swapped within the month but I'd like to have it running for a couple more weeks. Btw I see oil in the coolant expansion tank and when I changed out the hoses I saw some milkshake. Any help would be appreciated. I just want to diagnose whether there's just an extreme amount of air due to the changing of the two hoses or if something is clogged. Thank you
ps my temp gauge never went past halfway
Raised front end up a couple feet, put the temp setting to high, open the bleeder screw, poured coolant in the expansion tank while squeezing the hoses. I poured in about a quarter of the gallon jug before it wouldn't take anymore which I thought was odd.
I then tightened the bleeder screw, started the car with high fan setting and hot temp setting and waited for the car to get warmed up. While I waited i tried to squeeze the various coolant hoses to get the coolant flowing. Eventually the coolant from the expansion tank started to bubble and overflow instead of going down so I opened up the bleeder valve and hot steam was coming out and no coolant. Too much coolant was overflowing even when i tried to gas it, so i shut it down.
The level obviously dropped to near empty so I refilled again, closed the bleeder valve, and started the car. Same thing happened. After a few times I shut it down for the day frustrated. This morning I tried the same process and when I open up the bleeder valve/screw, coolant is flowing out but the expansion tank keeps overflowing. I can't imagine that i have the right amount of coolant in bc when I squeeze the hoses I can't feel the coolant running through, especially the bottom hose that connects to the radiator.
I've had a oil leak in the head gasket for a while now but the motor is going to be swapped within the month but I'd like to have it running for a couple more weeks. Btw I see oil in the coolant expansion tank and when I changed out the hoses I saw some milkshake. Any help would be appreciated. I just want to diagnose whether there's just an extreme amount of air due to the changing of the two hoses or if something is clogged. Thank you
ps my temp gauge never went past halfway
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