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Originally Posted by Vikingdad
3) Got it started and it ran OK, but then when I went to drive it up the hill it overheated pretty badly and was seriously lacking power. Couldn't climb the hill. I replaced the thermostat and coolant and then I did a chemical block check just to make sure the headgasket was not blown (it passed).
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If it overheated that easily, then there's probably an air bubble in the coolant system. Those can be very difficult to bleed.
For mine, I finally resorted to putting the system under a few PSI of pressure with a cooling system pressure tester, then cracking the lines at the heater core (high point of system) until coolant came out. Not perfect, but better than anything else I had tried.
When you get a chance, you'll want to check that the cooling system and cap holds pressure (~10 PSI). It won't overheat very fast even if it doesn't hold pressure. Seems like I'm fixing mine every few years.
08-08-2016, 11:53 PM
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