{"id":4200,"date":"2017-11-29T09:13:14","date_gmt":"2017-11-29T09:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techfeatured.com\/automotive\/14200\/car-overheating-problems-and-causes-coolant-leaks"},"modified":"2017-11-29T09:13:14","modified_gmt":"2017-11-29T09:13:14","slug":"car-overheating-problems-and-causes-coolant-leaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techfeatured.com\/automotive\/14200\/car-overheating-problems-and-causes-coolant-leaks","title":{"rendered":"Car Overheating Problems and Causes &#8211; Coolant Leaks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Car overheating problems most of the time is caused by coolant leaks&nbsp;in the cooling system. Ninety percent&nbsp;of the time&nbsp;coolant leaks are easy to locate due to the fact that&nbsp;leaks can be obvious. Sometimes when the hood is raised&nbsp;coolant can be seen leaking or spraying&nbsp;from&nbsp;the problem area. The&nbsp;color of the coolant is&nbsp;green most of the time, however it could be orange or yellow depending on the make of the vehicle and the type of antifreeze&nbsp;that&#8217;s in the system. Remember to never open the radiator or coolant cap on a hot system, even if there is <em>little<\/em> coolant in the system, steam&nbsp;could spray out that can cause scalding. If the car has been overheating, it&#8217;s best to let it cool down or only add water or anti-freeze to the coolant reservoir that has a <i>non-pressurized cap<\/i>. If a pressurized cap is removed from the radiator or plastic reservoir, hot coolant can spray out.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Most common sources of coolant leaks<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Water Pump<\/li>\n<li>Radiator or Heater Hoses<\/li>\n<li>Radiator<\/li>\n<li>Heater Core<\/li>\n<li>Intake Gaskets<\/li>\n<li>Head Gaskets<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If the leak is not obvious the system can be pressurized using a cooling system pressure tester.&nbsp;A test kit adapter can be used also to check the radiator cap, although a visual inspection&nbsp;of the radiator cap rubber seal can sometimes reveal&nbsp;wear. A faulty or&nbsp;<em>blown<\/em>&nbsp;head gasket can be a little more tricky to diagnose. A carbon test can be performed to check for the presence of exhaust fumes in the cooling system. Also a cylinder leak-down tester can be helpful to&nbsp;find very slow leaks in an individual&nbsp;cylinder or between two cylinders. Doing a compression test may help in finding problems,&nbsp;especially if two cylinders that are side by side share the same LOW compression reading. This would indicate that there is a head gasket leak between the two cylinders.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Car overheating problems most of the time is caused by coolant leaks&nbsp;in the cooling system. Ninety percent&nbsp;of the time&nbsp;coolant leaks are easy to locate due to the fact that&nbsp;leaks can be obvious. Sometimes when the hood is raised&nbsp;coolant can be seen leaking or spraying&nbsp;from&nbsp;the problem area. The&nbsp;color of the coolant is&nbsp;green most of the time, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[5191,1489,899],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techfeatured.com\/automotive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4200"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techfeatured.com\/automotive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techfeatured.com\/automotive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techfeatured.com\/automotive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techfeatured.com\/automotive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/techfeatured.com\/automotive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techfeatured.com\/automotive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techfeatured.com\/automotive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techfeatured.com\/automotive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}