My car has been overheating bad lately.
I flushed the radiator and even dropped in a 160 t-stat and a thing of water wetter.
Once the car warms up at idle it sits at 200-210. When I begin to drive it it'll take about 20 minutes before it hit 235 and I pull over, doesn't get any cooler while sitting so I shut it off and wait an hour for it to get down to 175 then continue on the last 15 minutes of my ride home from work.
It builds up ALOT of pressure and the passenger side of the motor begins to have oil coming out of the breather gaskets.
When I purge the cap the overflow tank bubbles alot and the steam released is incredible, and it shoots coolant out of the overflow tank too.
No coolant in the oil yet and no smoke from the tail pipes so I sure that it hasnt caused any damage to head gaskets at least yet.
When I got home I let it sit idling and the temp was at 245 so i grabbed the hose and let it flow over the radiator fins from the front and the temp dropped within 2 minutes to 170!
Im getting the air dam and fan shroud as soon as I get some money
Do you guys think its the radiator or the water pump? I cant figure it out.