Urgent help needed please - Audi pro's where are you?
Aaron Taylor
aaron at sunvalley.net
Wed Jan 30 16:07:43 EST 2002
Is this the post where the temp gets -30C!
I would suspect slushy slightly frozen coolant. I have had this happen here in
Idaho and the old isuzu overheated a bit . Water pump may flow a little but its
frozen elsewhere in the system. Warm up the car inside some place and then test
it. - just a thought.
DGraber460 at aol.com wrote:
> --
> [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ]
> In a message dated 1/30/2002 10:32:20 AM Mountain Standard Time,
> Stephane.Livolsi at investorsgroup.com writes:
>
> > 2. Is it possible that the water pump is not pumping when the engine is
> > running?
> > 3. Does anybody have any ideas as to what might be the problem?
> >
>
> If the heater core is plugged, then chances are good that whatever is
> plugging that is causing other problems as well.
> One possibility that hasn't been brought up is that you can blow a head
> gasket without getting mixing oil & coolant. It can breech from combustion to
> coolant, at which point the system gets very hot and pressurised. Are you
> getting any excesive pressure in the rad. or overflow tank?
> Was there a treminal event at the onset of the problem, or has this come on
> gradually?
>
> Dennis
> Denver
> Life is too short to drive boring reliable cars.
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