parker
16-03-2007, 10:47 AM
OK, heres the problem: When I start my TR 4 banger all is normal, she drives fine. After about 5 minutes it spews most of the contents of the radiator out onto the ground through the radiator overflow bottle, last night I was forced to leave my car a few ks from my house in hostile territory.
Now i did a search and found that likely problems were overflow bottle cap or radiator cap. So I went and bought both of these today and replaced both, I then filled my radiator up and got going.
I managed to get home and the temp guage was fine with no water flowing freely from its bowels, this happened last night on my first attempt to refill the radiator so I decided to keep it running for a few minutes while sitting outside my house. Sure enough the temp gauge started climbing and the radiator dropped it's guts in the gutter.
My old man seems to think that the most likely cause of this is the head gasket, this would explain my cars thirst for oil and the white smoke on startup (i think white meant water). Anyone else have any advice.
EDIT: Also, anyone know how much to get the head gasket replaced.
Now i did a search and found that likely problems were overflow bottle cap or radiator cap. So I went and bought both of these today and replaced both, I then filled my radiator up and got going.
I managed to get home and the temp guage was fine with no water flowing freely from its bowels, this happened last night on my first attempt to refill the radiator so I decided to keep it running for a few minutes while sitting outside my house. Sure enough the temp gauge started climbing and the radiator dropped it's guts in the gutter.
My old man seems to think that the most likely cause of this is the head gasket, this would explain my cars thirst for oil and the white smoke on startup (i think white meant water). Anyone else have any advice.
EDIT: Also, anyone know how much to get the head gasket replaced.