antifreeze overflow overflowing

[danman6677]

Well my family and i were on our way to town when the temp gauge was maxed and steam was pouring out , I opened the hood and found the coolant overflow...boilin over and the rad dry. What bad luck all this and it is -41 here, luckily I managed to drain the antifreeze from the overflow into a cup and pour it into the rad and limp my way home. Please let me know what i should repair/replace?

 

[poncho62]

Could be lots of things, water pump, bad thermostat just to name a couple.......You are going to have to fill it, watch it run and see what happens.

 

[danman6677]

I read that a bad rad cap will cause this more than anything else

 

[19trax95]

That would be my first thing to check is the cap.

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[great white]

So will a popped head gasket.

Bad thermostat would be the first place I would look...

 

[sewlow]

-41? What's your anti-freeze good to? Sounds like a frozen rad, to me.

 

[twomanymontes]

I was thinking the same thing, frozen radiator will cause it to run hot. A bad thermostat or rad cap would be the most likely cause though

 

[great white]

I highly doubt Campbell river has ever even seen -15 let alone -41.

Weathernetwork.com says "0" right now so I'm betting that was supposed to be -4 or -1C....