95 legacy wagon 2.2 over heating question
Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2012 1:04 am
so this past week we picked up my dad a 95 legacy wagon for cheap. owner said it only needed a water pump and they never got it really hot. so today i replaced water pump and timing belt. add coolant and let it burp all the air out at idle till it stops bubbling and the fans kick on. i take it for a little drive around the block and not even 3/4 of the way around the temp needle is in the red. i get back home and the coolant overflow is full and the top rad hose is smoking hot while the lower rad hose is still quite cool . after it colled down the system sucked all the water back in from the over flow and both upper and lower rad hoses were collapsed
so my question ... is it head gaskets or a plug in the system
the water pump was leaking so i dont know if the previous owner tried dumping that stop leak shit in and plugged it up or if they ran it out of coolant and over heated it
so my question ... is it head gaskets or a plug in the system
the water pump was leaking so i dont know if the previous owner tried dumping that stop leak shit in and plugged it up or if they ran it out of coolant and over heated it