Overheating EG/need bigger radiator

[Batlground]

you answered your own question, sounds like you have a leak, let the car run, squeeze hoses and look for leaks.

You can do a compression test on the engine to see if there is any variance between cylinders. you can pull the plugs and look for coolant deposits on the tips.

[rickylsi]

you answered your own question, sounds like you have a leak, let the car run, squeeze hoses and look for leaks.

You can do a compression test on the engine to see if there is any variance between cylinders. you can pull the plugs and look for coolant deposits on the tips.

Cool thanks for your help. I havent did a comp check in a while. Ill do that today.

[redciv1]

After I changed the engine on my Civic DX a couple of years back my car started overheating, leak somewhere. Took me a week to find the leak because there was no wetness anywhere. So one day I came home from worked and parked the car and popped the hood. I left the car running for whatever reason and out the corner of my eye, saw a very, very, fine stream of fluid. Turns out one of the coolant hoses on the IM had a very minute pin size hole and the coolant would only spray out when the car was at operating temperature and the coolant started flowing thru the system. And the kicker was that the coolant only squirted out in short pulses. So If you looked and turned away you would have never saw the leak.

[southside]

After I changed the engine on my Civic DX a couple of years back my car started overheating, leak somewhere. Took me a week to find the leak because there was no wetness anywhere. So one day I came home from worked and parked the car and popped the hood. I left the car running for whatever reason and out the corner of my eye, saw a very, very, fine stream of fluid. Turns out one of the coolant hoses on the IM had a very minute pin size hole and the coolant would only spray out when the car was at operating temperature and the coolant started flowing thru the system. And the kicker was that the coolant only squirted out in short pulses. So If you looked and turned away you would have never saw the leak.

damn u beat me to the punch i just got threw fixing that problem i had a small hose on my im that had a little split in it and it made me lose all my coolant which made my car run hot about 3 time but i still didnt blow a head gasket haha check the hose on the i think its the fitv on the bottom of the tb feel the bottom of it .might have a leak from there