I have a bran spankin new cooling system for my truck. I meen everythibng is replaced, new waterpump, radiator, E. Fan, 180 stat. And it still over heats!! whats goin on.

 

dumb question.....lol 50/50 water/antifreeze?

is mixture right?

not trying to be smart A$$

-but yea that is odd,got a heater core clogged or somthing?

 

yea its mixed. and i have a queston too, the block drained the coolent is one bottle of 50/50 coolent enough to replace it
?

 

when i replace antifreeze i buy a jug of non mixed antifreeze..(why pay for water? split in two jugs 50/50 :-P )

anyhow...when i refill from work like bottom hose or something...fill up the radiator to the top and leave the cap off and start the truck let it warm up to temp so the coolent circulates it wont spray out as it wont have pressure but should be warm/hot ill dab my finger in it.

to persuade it to take more ill squeeze the radiator hoses to burp it in a little better...

maybe worth a try?

 

thats what i normaly do but i had my friend pic me up a bottle and he got me 50/50 and ill try that. I meen even if it was just a lil low would it run hot?

 

id bet being low would not get you a good full fluid compacity?(while warmed up and pressure is built)

rule of thumb for me is to make sure its filled just to the top of the cores in the radiator...

 

ok thank you ill try fillin it all the way up tomorrow. If it doesnt work ill let you all no

 

Our trucks use a slightly different kind of antizreeze. At NAPA, it's ZEREX E-06 (I think). The jug will tell you. The important thing is that you shouldn't mix different kinds of antifreeze.

 

Bleed it out, you need to ensure no air is in the system. Air in the system will still cause you to overheat.

 

I thought it was Zerex G-05.