gen2 overheats on freeway!!!

Started by jak4cars, Nov 08 2008 08:29 PM

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#1 jak4cars

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Posted 08 November 2008 - 08:29 PM

so today i took it onto the freeway and 10min in and i look and its creeping 3/4, then in less than 1min it goes to that dotted part, i go into the no u turn area and see coolant pissin out of the reseviour. I had no water and it was practically pitch dark so i waited and slowly went back towards sydney and guage went back up to the top in no time but i found a stop area. waited a few min with bonnet open and then back onto the freeway. i kept it in 3rd gear, keeping the rpms up kept it stable. made my way to hornsby and found a servo, poured lots of water onto the radiator, turned on the heater and used 2nd and 3rd gear on my way home, i'm glad it got me home

but i need to know what i can do so that this doesn't happen again. About 2 months ago i gave it a full service incl water pump and thermostat. i dono wat to do now, what can i do? cheers

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#2 SUBARU

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Posted 08 November 2008 - 10:05 PM

so today i took it onto the freeway and 10min in and i look and its creeping 3/4, then in less than 1min it goes to that dotted part, i go into the no u turn area and see coolant pissin out of the reseviour. I had no water and it was practically pitch dark so i waited and slowly went back towards sydney and guage went back up to the top in no time but i found a stop area. waited a few min with bonnet open and then back onto the freeway. i kept it in 3rd gear, keeping the rpms up kept it stable. made my way to hornsby and found a servo, poured lots of water onto the radiator, turned on the heater and used 2nd and 3rd gear on my way home, i'm glad it got me home
but i need to know what i can do so that this doesn't happen again. About 2 months ago i gave it a full service incl water pump and thermostat. i dono wat to do now, what can i do?
cheers

Take it to a mechanic if you don't know what to do with it.

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#3 Guest_SubaruJunkie_*

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Posted 09 November 2008 - 01:55 AM

Cooling Fans work?????

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#4 jak4cars

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Posted 09 November 2008 - 08:58 AM

yep both of them work, around town and normal driving its fine, the needle never moves past the 2 swigily lines of the temp symbol. It just on the freeway after a while it started to creep up then once i pulled over was pissing out coolant.