When my car heats up it pushes all the coolant into the overflow tank and it starts overflowing and wasting it to the ground. how to i get to suck it self back up? ive read all the cross the line and stuff. but i dont understand it.

Any advice?

 

Maybe you should print the threads out and take them out to the car where you can reference the thread to what is in front of your eyes.

Some people need to be able to put the visual in front of themselves to be able to relate the words to the visual.

 

coolant should not be flowing into the overflow like that -- you may have a bad cap or the cooling system is experiencing too much pressure.

Did this car overheat when it was hit?

 

It will do that if the hoses are crossed from the correct position.

If the car was hit and the shop had the tank out, then indeed they may not have reinstalled the hoses correctly.

If the coolant starts coming out pretty much as soon as the car heats up, then it sounds exactly like all the "hoses crossed" threads.

One easy way to figure it out is to just cross the hoses and see if it still does it.

The car should not be driven until it is figured out because the of the risk of overheating. Driving to get it up to temperature for testing is okay though. You gotta do what you gotta do.

 

As I've been through this - check this thread (start reading from page 3) and have a look at the photos -> https://www.jaguarforums.com/forum/x...k-56052/page3/

 

Pray it's not the same problem I had:
https://www.jaguarforums.com/forum/x...a-fixed-62429/

 

is it just a leak or does it have a violent burst from reservoir (behind the motor)

 

Not sure whom you are directing the question to but if it's me....yes, there was a violent outflowing of coolant into the overflow tank near the left front wheel when taking the expansion tank cap off (even after overnight cool-down) - it was building up pressure due to a head gasket issue in my case. This is probably worst case scenario, and there are other reasons for the symptom that you have which are more common.

 

A parrt of me however is scared of the head gasket, but still no symptons, the plugs are not while and have no signs of coolant, the oil has no signs of coolant and no smoke either, could it still be head gasket?

 

Check out my previous posts....all of the above was essentially okay for me too, but it was the head gasket presenting this way. It's rare. Try the chemical sniff test (looking for exhaust fumes in coolant) after a hard drive while running at 3000rpm....it took that to be positive for me. It's rare.

 

I have all these treads on my laptop when I goto the shop, and I have the mobile version on my iphone so I review alot of these threads looking for soulutions. I hate when people post threads that have been asked 100 times.

 

the cap is new because before i crashed the car, i had replaced it like 3 weeks prior.

and do you think pressure is building up because i put water in the cooling system? I had drained everything and put water and a radiator flush in it to clean everything up because its a new radiator.

 

I had done all the work to this car, we have an agreement that they do the body and frame, and ill do the mechanical and such forth. Im friends with the owner, and I trust my work.

But the old tank was cracked off upon impact. I installed a new tank. Can somebody post pictures to describe the "hoses crossed" I dont know what that means exactly. I hooked everything up how i removed everything, when I started stripping them out.

Right now the car isnt being driven. Its sitting on a lift, waiting for its turn in the paint booth.

 

i finally found someone with pictures lol yesss!!! But no my lines arent crossed, they were never like that from the day i got it.

 

No my head gasket is not blown. Ive basically tooken this engine apart at one point when. I had an electrical problem. And I wanted to see if there was sludge. Looks like my lines are not crossed. I will make my way over to the shop tomorrow and see whats the success looking like.

 

Bit confused.

You do understand that the lines, when installed correctly, are crossed.

 

So to save confusion do they look lke this?

 

whats the correct compression? I need to check whats going on with this car

 

Ok so my lines weren't crossed. I crossed them while praying for them to come out nice and easy without breaking and now the problem is gone.

Heres how it looked before.

 

Sorry for the bad pic, but problem solved. Crossed the hoses, and shazam its back to normal. Thanks alot for your quick responses.

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