Thread: COOLING ISSUES... help

bled the system and still nothing i think its works a little better but its still does the same problem. I dont get heat when im driving and the needle goes down. so im pretty sure that the car is running cold just dont know why. This one has me pretty stumped.

WHEN I TURN ON THE CAR.. on cold start .. the rpms start up high then drop like as if a sensor is telling it too.. in a matter of seconds from turning it on

jus put a ve in my gf's p10, comes up to temp normaly, right at the normal spot, stays there.. an the fans kick on when they need to.. lol.. i bet its a matter of sensor on my car..

I'm jumping in on this. I will probably look like a huge noob too, but here we go.

Some you may have seen that my RR bit the dust last weekend, anyways, the only problem I had with heating/cooling before Sunday was that after a few minutes driving steam/smoke, whatever, would slowly come out of all the vents inside the car. My dad thinks it's either heater hoses in the wrong spots or the heater core is shot. The car would take about 5-10 minutes to heat up and idle normally. The temp gauge never read over normal, even when it was dieing and smoking after it died. and would read normal after the 5-10 minutes.

I filled, or so I thought, the radiator with coolant, 50/50, I poured almost the whole container into the radiator. So I thought I was fine. But the steam/smoke still appeared after a few minutes of driving. Sunday... I drive out to a friends house before we start on our drive. Everything is fine up until now, other than the smoke/steam from vents. We start on our journey and everything is going fine. In the first section of twisties I notice smoke/steam shooting out from above my passenger side headlight. That goes away after the corners. Then we get to the mountain and the car starts lurching and squeaking anytime I touch the gas. At one point, smoke/steam BILLOW out of all my vents inside the car. Floor, Defrost, Dashvents, everything. Then it disappears. We get to a 1st gear corner where there is always traffic, this is the WORST section of road in history for traffic flow. I'm in first gear and the car just dies.

Later we find out that the VC melted the hose from the IM to the FPR. Which could have caused the lurching and dieing. I call my aunt's bf and he comes and takes a look at it. Says it sounds like I've lost compression in one or more cylinders. Checks the radiator and reservoir tank, nothing, dry as a bone. Essentially I overheated my engine.

Did I not have enough coolant, or did something else happen with the coolant that caused it to disappear? The car never had any liquid under it except for gear oil. Any insight would be very helpful.

I know I don't have a VE. But I don't want to start a new thread in another section about a similar issue.

Sounds like you simply didn't have enough coolant or the system wasn't properly bled. Either way, though, to keep things clutter free, I suggest you start your own thread since it's a separate issue from this one.

I agree that you might want to center around this.

If the sensor gets oil or dirt on it, it can act funny. Also check that its really on there. Make sure the wire's not spliced somehow.

The temp gauge shouldn't really dance around.

If it goes from one end to the middle and back again, that means its shooting back and forth from cold to operating temp and back super-fast.

When the idiot gauge is less than the halfway mark, it means nothing. There is no "less than halfway" reading from that gauge. It has 3 settings: cold, op temp, and hot. You prob know this.

Get your hands on a Informeter or Multichecker or something and get a real reading.

..got 2 thermostats from greg v today

one is vvl oem

two is 80 higher temp


i will try installing the 80 degree one first for tomorrows fun adventure of the day the update to this will not happen till 12 am saturday due to heavy partying if it works out fine.. if it doesnt work out fine i will jump into a heavy stream of traffic.

cough SENSOR cough

sensor is brand new.

I can still get oil or dirt on it,, ??