OK, I decided to do some preventative maintenance on my (new to me) CR-V. The timing belt and accessory drive belts and radiator hoses were of unknown provenance and the radiator had an occasional weeping leak at the top tank; ordered the parts a while back (from Phil), got ahead on some other stuff and decided to dig in and "git 'er done." Everything went pretty well; it's not a really easy car to work on but everything fit and after I was done it started and didn't make clanking noises...drove into Cameron and back yesterday and all was OK.

Hit the highway headed for Austin today, got 10mi from home, my feet were cold so I turn on the heater and realize there wasn't any hot air coming out...I check the temp gauge and it is PEGGED!

When I replaced the radiator, I forgot to put the clamp on the bottom radiator hose, it blew the hose off the nipple, drained the cooling system, overheated and, at the least, (I'm guessing) warped the head. Random miss now, throwing "intermittent miss all cylinders" DTC code and has what looks like combustion pressure in the radiator(bubbles).

I have killed a perfectly good engine.

GAWD, I think I'm losing my groove on this stuff.

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