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sorry man none as of yet work has being hectic should get playing round wit the tramp tomorrow :dance:

You need a specific tool that basically looks like a turkey baster and it has a blue chemical in it..you put it in your expansion bottle and basically "sniff" it and if theres combustion gases there the chemical turns yellow or green..its inexpensive to buy just go into a motor factors and ask...

The car was stored in a dry insulated shed there was coolant but i drained it since i changed the rad...oil is perfect no coolant whatsoever in it and coolant is clean as well...

I have check it and its opening and closing fine

its a slang name for a test to see if there is combustion gases in the coolant

It is very strange that this is only happening now...The car was converted last year and only 200 miles where done but it past a NCT (MOT) with no problems and was showing none of the symptoms like it is now..I suspect the head gasket is dead but have to do a cylinder leak down test and a sniff...

@oifovo rad doesn't seem to be blocked nor does the pipes and had the thermostat out and it opens and closed perfect..thought maybe a severe airlock so spent ages bleeding it using the bleed screw on the back of the engine...at first got a right bit of air outta it but air pockets just kept...

@tama666 Cant be rad cap because even if the cap is off before the engine heats up it will start shooting water out aggressively..

HI all I have a b16a which has being parked up all winter, I started it the other day and let it warm up after about 10-15 mins it started pushing the coolant from the rad into the expansion bottle :angry2:. If it gets a rev at all it fills the bottle faster and overflows scalding water. Temp...

Well lads and lasies I recently bought a 97 1.4 civic and the brakes were grand when I first got it but the next day I put her on the lift and it was on it for 3 or so weeks. During this time I changed the spring and cv boots, and when I got into it and went to drive it the brake pedal went to...