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It means that the coolant is not circulating. Either from a lack of coolant, a stuck thermostat, a failed water pump, etc.
**The water path from the radiator to the engine is blocked somehow. First look at your thermostat. This devise will regulate your water intake into the engine, if it is weak or gone bad, it will not work properly to regulate your cooling system. Check your hoses too, they can collaps and cause no water to flow. Then there is your water pump to check.
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Do you put antifreeze directly into the radiator of a 2005 impala?
Yes. First top up the radiator then fill the overflow reservoir to the "HOT" mark if the engine is hot or the "COLD" mark if the engine is cold. Be CAREFUL when you remove the radiator cap on a hot engine. The coolant is under pressure.....
Where do you safely poor engine coolant into your 1999 ford ranger?
The reservoir has two level lines - one for "cold engine" and the other for "hot engine". If the engine is hot, and the coolant level is low, fill the reservoir to the "hot engine" level. When the engine is cold and the level is low, I usually" top off" the radiator and fill the reservoir to the "cold engine" level.
Why on a 95 ford probe gt would the lower radiator hose be cold when the upper radiator hose is hot and there is no thermostat in engine to cause a blockage and engine overheats?
clogged radiator or bad water pump
Why is one side of your radiator in your car hot and one side cold?
As long as the engine is not overheating, this is normal for a radiator to do. The heat comes from the engine on the driver's side, and exits to the engine on the lower passenger side.
Radiator cap is cold the engine is hot?
thermostat or air in clling system replace thermostat and bleed the system
Water is used to cool the radient of hot car engine?
Yes, water cools your engine. A water pump draws water from the radiator and into pores in the engine block, cooling it off. There is a thermostat that lets the hot water out of he engine at a certain temperature so the hot water cools off in the radiator with wind and the cold water goes in the engine.
Do you check radiator fluid when car hot or cold?
Do it when the car is cold if the radiator is hot fluid may be forced out when you take off the cap.
Why is coolant coming out through radiator cap on 1993 Pontiac grand am?
If the engine is cold... it could mean that the radiator cap is too weak to hold and you need to get a new one. If the engine is HOT... it could mean that you have overheated it and you need to add water after the engine has cooled a bit, to prevent getting burned, be careful and use a towel to remove the cap to add coolant.
Why the right hose cold and the left is hot?
The right is a the supply hose into the engine. Thecoolantis coldercoming fromthe radiator. The left hose is the return hose to the radiator, after the coolanthas gone through the engine, which reheated the coolant.
What is the purpose of water in a car's radiator?
The radiator cools the water which then goes to your engine to cool it off, as cool water enters your engine hot water from the engine enters your radiator
At times your car smells like the engine is hot?
When your car smells like the engine is hot, is the engine hot? If it smells hot and the engine is not hot, then you have coolant escaping onto a hot surface. You may have bad radiator hoses, a leaky radiator, a blown gasket, or some other problem. You need to find the leak.
1997 Chevy 350 v8 top radiator hose hot bottom radiator hose cold?
If your engine is not overheating then I don't think you have a problem here. If you're getting good circulation and the car is not overheating, then you are fine. The bottom hose should be warm but not hot. When you say cold, I assume you mean when compared to the top hose. The thermostat not only regulates engine temperature, it also controls the speed of the coolant through the engine. If the coolant flows too fast, it won't pick up heat as efficiently as if it were moving slower. There's a basic principle at work in your cooling system. it's that when a fluid is heated, it rises. The "cold" (I'm talking relatively here) coolant is drawn into the engine from the bottom of the radiator. When the engine heats the coolant up, it rises up and "hot" coolant goes back in the top of the radiator. As it cools, it has the tendency to sink to the bottom of the radiator and the cycle starts again. Of course this is not enough to cool an engine without a water pump, but the engineers use this principle to work with nature, not against it. What is happening is the coolant is not that hot when it enters the radiator and when it is cooled, it cools it down to the point where it is almost actually cold. Now, if the engine is overheating, then flush the radiator, replace the thermostat, top off the system with a 50/50 mix, and bleed all air from the system.
