Td04 Users And Civic Rads?????

[Kelly]

Any of the ppl running td04's with civic rads have any issue's with pushing coolant into the overflow bottle and then overflowing the overflow bottle??

 

[starbogt]

sounds like a dodgey cap !

 

[Kelly]

sounds like a dodgey cap !

got 5 rad caps all cant be dodgy tho!!!

 

[Adam_Glanza]

maybe youve got a blockage somewhere

 

[goldenvtr]

i always had that problem kelly, never went away lol

 

[AzE_B]

sounds like head gasket

 

[Kelly]

i dont think its head gasket only running 1bar not too much strain.

 

[AzE_B]

you could be runing no boost and the gasket can go has it always done it

 

[Kelly]

you could be runing no boost and the gasket can go has it always done it

cars just been rebuilt with a speedvision headgasket.

the car has done this since the rad change.

 

[HYBRID]

hmm u could have air in the system, but a recent head gasket change leads me to believe that it could possibly be that the head was torqued down wrongly.. which would lead to warping of the hg.. ie ud need to reopen & rechange the hg.. any signs of water in oil? or vice versa?

 

[Kelly]

hmm u could have air in the system, but a recent head gasket change leads me to believe that it could possibly be that the head was torqued down wrongly.. which would lead to warping of the hg.. ie ud need to reopen & rechange the hg.. any signs of water in oil? or vice versa?

nope no other signs of headgasket trouble.

 

[goldenvtr]

well as i said, mine did it for 18months and ran several drag strip times, it did however get better when i got a dual core swift rad but it still did it.
maybe they dont have enough capacitiy and the pump pushed out to much pressure?

 

[Kelly]

well as i said, mine did it for 18months and ran several drag strip times, it did however get better when i got a dual core swift rad but it still did it.
maybe they dont have enough capacitiy and the pump pushed out to much pressure?

what rad cap did you run on it?

did you ever run a genuine civic rad cap?

 

[goldenvtr]

yea i ran a stock civic cap, then when i put a 1.3 cap on eventually the car shat itself( way to silverstone) lol,

 

[Kelly]

yea i ran a stock civic cap, then when i put a 1.3 cap on eventually the car shat itself( way to silverstone) lol,

lol !!! i remember

mike said his AA renewal went up coz of you (he's here now) lol

 

[HYBRID]

was the head skimmed b4 the new hg was put on?

 

[Kelly]

dan you stil got the standard civic rad cap?

 

[Kelly]

was the head skimmed b4 the new hg was put on?

the head was checked and it was fine. didnt need skimming.

 

[goldenvtr]

i do but i need it for the new rad i got. its a 3" thick radiator now lol

 

[HYBRID]

the head was checked and it was fine. didnt need skimming.

hmmm... even if it doesnt need it, technically a skim of 1thou should be done always..

anyways, did u check for air in the system?, btw with 1.7bar on the td04L (using a civic rad) i never got water in the expansion bottle, with a stock rad cap...