<bsteagal@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> Hello all! Hopefully someone could give me a good pointer on this:
>
> I recently had a new water pump installed on my 1996 ford probe gt
> after the car heated up on the way to work. Now, the car did not have
> a chance to overheat too much as I am only about 15 miles away from
> work and it still had quite a bit of coolant left in the system..
>
> but oh well, they replaced the pump and now I'm having an issue where
> the car is dumping coolant through the overflow tank... Usually after
> driving for about 30 minutes and well after the car has come up to
> running temperature. I do have an idiot light coming on (which I
> still have to take to see what it is, but I'll be doing that today)
>
> Now the odd things are this:
>
> 1.- The temperature gauge does not fluctuate nor does it show that the
> car is overheating, even after driving for an hour or so...
> 2.- It doesn't dump the antifreeze until about 2-3 minutes after
> shutting down the engine... then I start to hear the coolant
> circulating through the radiator, then the overflow rises and it dumps
> the fluid.
>
> The garage that I had the service done in has washed their hands
> saying that could not be caused by anything they did.. Some of the
> suggestions I have been given are:
>
> 1.- bad radiator caps (this sucker has 2? which I found strange)
> 2.- thermostat is bad and needs replacement
> 3.- possible head gasket blown or cracked heads...
>
> I want to get some 2 and 3rd opinions before I take it back to the
> shop.. Your help is greatly appreciated..
>
> Thanks!
>
> Bryan
you wont get any help here, go to...
http://forums.probetalk.com/index.php
or
http://www.performanceprobe.com/index2.php
you will get all the help you need.
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