Thread: Boiling coolant

I don't want to think that

neither do i

theres one to find your if its your headgasket..

remove your t stat. put your housing back on with no t stat.
remove all of your spark plugs
refill your engine with coolant to the top and leave your rad. cap off.
remove your fuel pump fuse

install one spark plug per cyl. and and have someone crank the car while your looking at the radiator fill hole and see if any bubbles come out. if theres no bubbles proceed to the next one and do it again untill you find out which cyl compression is leaking into your coolant.. if no bubbles your good. if there is ur fugged..

we did this on my buddies 92 se-r and had cyl 3 and 4 blowing bubbles
and on a 97 stratus cyl 1 was leaking bad..

try this and it works..

good luck..

usually when its the head gasket..youll have coolant boiling onto your reservoir and reservoir leaking, and overheating.. sometimes when its really bad it will blow your radiator apart from the tanks and could pop a coolant hose..

my headgasket leaks under boost, not under vacuum driving. which is why i think i havent gotten any coolant in my oil

if thats the cause replace the headgasket its real simple on these sr20's.. well if u done a ton of them it is lol..

I'll try to make that test this next weekend. I want to take out of my mind that the reason for this is the headgasket

Can't believe you guys arent running aftermarket temp gauges. And i'm assuming no oil pressure either. It's always the first thing i do to a car when i get it. My car is held up atm cause those 2 damn hoses on the back of the motor that Briceno did took a crap on me 2 weeks ago. It rained for 6 days straight here and although you kinda smelled the antfreeze you couldn't see it smoke cause it always smokes at a stand still from the rain splashing on the exhaust/turbo. Temp gauge doesn't lie though. As soon as it was 5* over what it usually max's at i knew something was up.

ive been wanting to do the temp guage in the cluster swap mod

My set up on my B13's when i had them



My current set up on my G20. Put radio down bottom. Always wanted to do this to the B13's but never did.

I did that before, just be glad it's just a head gasket and not a piston.