MarauderMark
12-06-2004, 04:34 PM
Thats how my wife says it..
Anyways heres my trouble..It started about 5 weeks ago.It has been a few months before then that i had the electric water pump installed .so about 5 weeks ago when drive normal back home from eating the car is spitting out smoke (thick) as my son tells me i look at the gauge it all the way on hot.i pull over turn it off wait about five mins and it went down to normal get back in drive it about a 1/4 mile and same thing again .i had to do this procedure 6 times in order to get it home.i have it towed to ford clinic (D :censor: s) they find nothing wrong and give it back.1 week later my wife has the same problem lets it cool down and drives it to them w/o it overheating and running fine.they inturn tell me i need head gaskets and that it is running like crap :mad: wasn't like that on the way to the place .So they install cobra head gaskets and head bolts saying that the boost was moving the heads which caused the head gaskets to blow so $2,300 later i take the car home and have it 4 days i run it at the track 1 time and blow a spark plug which they replace for free.this satuday night i drive it around the block and i'm not getting heat strange i thought i just parked it here 1/2 hour ago no problem all the sudden the temp gauge is all the way in the red i pull over shut it down for five min start it up and no problem .now last night i take the family to see xmas lights in the neighborhood i get about 1/2 mile from home again no heat so i knew what was going to happen so i shut it off but this time i wait and it still hot the overflow resivior looked like and overfilled balloon.so i start it and hurry home and now it gets hot w/o heat .can't even drive it again..WHAT IS THE PROBLEM???????thermostat?????w ater pump works when it wants to???? something clogging up the system???I really hate to get rid of this car but it is costing more than i can afford.PLEASE HELP ME!!!!
Anyways heres my trouble..It started about 5 weeks ago.It has been a few months before then that i had the electric water pump installed .so about 5 weeks ago when drive normal back home from eating the car is spitting out smoke (thick) as my son tells me i look at the gauge it all the way on hot.i pull over turn it off wait about five mins and it went down to normal get back in drive it about a 1/4 mile and same thing again .i had to do this procedure 6 times in order to get it home.i have it towed to ford clinic (D :censor: s) they find nothing wrong and give it back.1 week later my wife has the same problem lets it cool down and drives it to them w/o it overheating and running fine.they inturn tell me i need head gaskets and that it is running like crap :mad: wasn't like that on the way to the place .So they install cobra head gaskets and head bolts saying that the boost was moving the heads which caused the head gaskets to blow so $2,300 later i take the car home and have it 4 days i run it at the track 1 time and blow a spark plug which they replace for free.this satuday night i drive it around the block and i'm not getting heat strange i thought i just parked it here 1/2 hour ago no problem all the sudden the temp gauge is all the way in the red i pull over shut it down for five min start it up and no problem .now last night i take the family to see xmas lights in the neighborhood i get about 1/2 mile from home again no heat so i knew what was going to happen so i shut it off but this time i wait and it still hot the overflow resivior looked like and overfilled balloon.so i start it and hurry home and now it gets hot w/o heat .can't even drive it again..WHAT IS THE PROBLEM???????thermostat?????w ater pump works when it wants to???? something clogging up the system???I really hate to get rid of this car but it is costing more than i can afford.PLEASE HELP ME!!!!