[DML] Re: quick question

["content22207" <brobertson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

OK -- This could be a horse of different color altogether:

Did you truly boil the coolant, or was it merely spewing out of the
overflow tube? If it's the latter, you may not have hurt anything but
the environment.

Stock DeLorean does NOT have a coolant overflow bottle, even though
that's what people often call it. It's an expansion tank. It is
located on the pressurized side of the radiator cap. It serves the
same purpose as the air gap at the top of a normal radiator. If your
system has too much coolant, it will fill this tank to the top then
spit excess out that tube. That's the way car companies did it in the
late 70's/early 80's (proper overflow bottles were a dealer option).

What was your gauge reading when this happened? Did the plumbing sound
like Mount Vesuvius? 

All you want to see in the expansion tank (bled system) is a little
puddle at the bottom, basically the same level as the thermostat. 

Change your hoses anyway. You should never trust a PO's rubber.

Bill Robertson
#5939

>--- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Lauren" <LPLand@xxxx> wrote:
>
> Would it be safe to assume that if after the coolant spewed out the 
> overflow and was replaced, the engine purred down the freeway at 
> 90 and normal temperature, that I haven't damaged it? 
> 





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