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My car constantly over heats causing it to stall out. Spits out the radiator. Any ideas?
I have a 95 Dodge Intrepid. V6. 3.5. On 7/21 the car overheated and eventually stalled out. When I popped my hood it was steaming like mad and antifreeze or just plane water was spitting out the Radiator I believe. I put Antifreeze in it and it ran fine until it did it again last night. The exact same thing happened. I put a very long and wide peice of cardboard under the car to see if it was a leak. It WAS NOT. My car also is missing the A/C belt. Could that be the problem? If not, what could it be?
Note: When it overheats, I put water in it and it cools it down for a small amount of time. Maybe it’ll get me about 5 miles until it over heats again.
Two things it could be. If your AC belt is supposed to be routed around other pulleys, it may have been responsible for running the water pump as well. If that is not the case, it is probably the thermostat sticking open. This causes the water to continuously circulate and not allow it to actually sit in the radiator to be cooled. Once all the water reaches such high temps, there is no cooling any of it and the engine shuts down.
Be careful, you can melt the rod-caps in the lower end of the engine which would require a rebuild. I would get it fixed quickly. A thermostat is a quick and inexpensive repair.
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