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Wait, what? No thermostat in motor? I thought you said it was stock. You should run a thermostat.
I wonder if the water pump impeller still has all of its blades at full size.
I also wonder about an air pocket.
I wonder if the water pump impeller still has all of its blades at full size.
I also wonder about an air pocket.
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Plugs look good. Head gaskets are often misdiagnosed using the funnel. Let it warm up, you'll slowly see the fluid level rise as the coolant expands. Then the thermostat will open and the fluid level will fall quickly. That's when you need to stop the engine, pull the funnel, and cap the radiator. Any longer and you're just not allowing your coolant system to operate under pressure, which it needs to, and keep it from cooling properly. Once you do this, let it cool and then watch the pressure gauge. If it immeiately spikes to high pressure, you have a bad head gasket. It should slowly rise until your radiator cap pressure (usually 1.1 bar), then bleed down/up/down etc.
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Far as I can tell its all it could be. Or cracked block or head.
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HG now changed, I'll put rest back together tomorrow. No real determining factor on the cause of the issue other than exhaust valves look a bit hot. Water pump looked ok, timing was right on, and HG looked ok. I'll put it new water pump in and cross fingers.
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So I change the head gasket nothing remarkable didn't look bad change the water pump while I'm in there change timing belt start car up idle for 15 minutes brought it to 2,000 RPM started overheating again boiling out of the radiator cap interesting enough one of the heater hoses never got hot I had flush the heater core before had no issues. I've just bypassing the heater core we going to try that would a blocked heater core cause a car to overheat?
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Well answer is YES!
Put many miles on it tonight, no issues. I have owned many Miatas and worked on many and never seen this issue before. Guess what I ll be checking 1st next time.
The new owner picked it up today and is thrilled!
Thanks all!
Now back to the slowest MSM build ever.
Put many miles on it tonight, no issues. I have owned many Miatas and worked on many and never seen this issue before. Guess what I ll be checking 1st next time.
The new owner picked it up today and is thrilled!
Thanks all!
Now back to the slowest MSM build ever.
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