Tuesday, September 15, 2015
Engine Overheating Problems?
I have a '96 4th gen Honda prelude and I can't figure out why it's overheating. I've gone through everything I can think of but the car is still having problems. The water pump is good, replaced the radiator+hoses+thermostat and bled the air out of the system so that's all good. I did a block test to check for bad head gasket and the head gasket is fine so there's no oil mixing in the system. The problem started after I replaced the oil cooler o-ring. I don't really know how the oil cooler works but there's oil and coolant lines that run into the cooler and I replaced the hose for the coolant line because it was splitting. I didn't use the OEM hose so I had to bend the new one in an awkward angle to force it to fit but it's on there, could that be restricting the flow of coolant? I have no idea what else to check.
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