Overheating

Tiny
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  • 2001 DAEWOO LANOS
  • 1.6L
  • 6 CYL
  • 2WD
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  • 124,274,238 MILES
The car was recently overhauled, it's overheating, water flows out of the water bottle. What could it be?
Wednesday, February 5th, 2020 AT 6:29 AM

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Tiny
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Good morning,

This is not a good sign. It sounds like a compression leak into the cooling system from a head gasket leak. You will need to have a leak down test performed to see if it is the head gasket.

https://www.2carpros.com/articles/head-gasket-blown-test

That is where you inject shop air into the cylinder one at a time and watch for coolant movement in the surge tank.

Roy
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Wednesday, February 5th, 2020 AT 6:52 AM

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