my srt 4 overheating weird help plzz!!! - SRT Forums

brandy kaiser 20 · 10-31-2009, 02:44 AM

i have a question my srt 4 is kind of overheating sometimes but especially when i go for a long ride and yesterday i raced another srt on the freeway and my srt 4 started overheatin so bad and i opened the hood and i saw like the antifreeze comin out from the little water tank behind the engine like if it was sending the water bak!!! u guys have any ideas please helpppp i need helpp so bad thanks guys!!

Legoman · 10-31-2009, 04:25 AM

tow it to the next garage that they can check it. Sounds like either a blown headgasket (not so much) but more like a coolant fluid leak somewhere.
Don't drive anymore till you found the leak or you will blow your engine!

SRTFighter · 10-31-2009, 04:38 AM

or it could be something as simple as a thermostat right?

SeniorT2005 · 10-31-2009, 05:44 AM

If your getting backflow through the overflow tank, it is possible that you have a blown headgasket. But first and foremost stop driving the car as it my damage alot more and be even more expensive to repair. There is a reason why they put gauges in a cars insturment panels. Have you replaced your stock thermostat? Or done anything to the cooling system in the car recently?

SRT Jeff · 10-31-2009, 07:37 AM

If you take it to a good shop they can put the screw on funnel cap where your rad cap is and let it idle if there are a lot bubbles coming up need new head gasket most likely.(bummer).

doonan75 · 10-31-2009, 08:19 AM

Check your your rad cap. If it's leaking it'll do the same thing.

RSchyns · 10-31-2009, 10:19 AM

RADIATOR CAP... a lot of these threads lately

brandy kaiser 20 · 10-31-2009, 12:23 PM

but the weird thing is that only overheats when i go for a long ride or when im racing but when im just krussin aroun its kool so i dont get this shit!!! i already replaced the thermostat, water pump and the radiator??so i dont know wat 2 do next thanks guys

SeniorT2005 · 10-31-2009, 12:48 PM

Head Gasket!!!, I has the same prob with my Turbocoupe Thunderbird, it was great crusing around short trips but If I was boostin and out for a good while it would start over heating.

doonan75 · 10-31-2009, 06:15 PM

Try the cap first and bleed the air out after you refill it. Your radiator cap might be leaking just enough that it takes awhile for it to start boiling off coolant. If it is not holding a siphon then it's not pulling fluid from the resevoir as needed and then you overheat after long cruises. It's still a lot cheaper to change out to a new cap than it is to replace the head gasket. Start the cheapest remedy first.