Re: Honestly, I Can't Explain It...
 

Newsflash, overheating blows headgaskets.

:P

Re: Honestly, I Can't Explain It...
 

not always :p

especially if you turn it off when it starts heh

Re: Honestly, I Can't Explain It...
 

I'm trying to be all e-hard here, quit being so goddamn reasonable!

Re: Honestly, I Can't Explain It...
 

The car never overheated and it did have anti-freeze, but like I said it was and still is coooooold. -15* or so was the windchill, but without the wind easily single digits to low negatives. I think it's going to get towed home tomorrow and Dad and Pap are going to fix it. Thanks for all the help guys, but how can we prevent this from happening again?


JP

Re: Honestly, I Can't Explain It...
 

use straight antifreeze

Re: Honestly, I Can't Explain It...
 

If you were an atheist none of this would have ever happened.

Re: Honestly, I Can't Explain It...
 

All I ever use is straight anti freeze. Here in Kentucky you never know for sure what the weather is going to be except for a few months in summer. And I know if filled my radiator with water in june I'd forget and sometime in october it would freeze and crack my block or something.

try torque ing the head studs again. that usaully only works if it starts overheating in boost though.

Re: Honestly, I Can't Explain It...
 

absolutely do not run straight antifreeze, at the most a 75-25 mix

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UMMMM why do you say that straight anit freeze is all I've ever ran since the begining of time. Um Ive never had engine problems with a car either. I had one f22 blow up a few years ago but that because my sister who was borrowing the car never checked the oil for about three months.

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and could you say why you shouldnt??? thats all i have ever used in any shop and in my 8 personal cars that i have owned and never had problems with any of them... water in your coolant system has a potential to freeze if the temp. is right no matter how much it is..straight antifreeze wont freeze until probably -40 or -50 below so tell me why not to run straight antifreze... im sure im not the only person to do so... read DMC1's post above and youll get the picture..not trying to be an ass......