Point taken...
They did finally change the thermostat after 3 flushes, so I suppose the geyser could have done a number on the thermostat and the overheating in the process blew the head gasket. Remember, I'm not a very mechanical, mechanical person. I just throw out what makes sense to me...
Thanks all for your feedback and advice.
I won..
The eruption that the kid did when filling up the radiator was enough to convince the judge that the chain of events started in their shop and not before I came in. I had 147,000 miles on my car when going in. If I had a lemon car, my car would...
Marcusl,
The car was idling the whole time. My car has never overheated before or even indicated more than the 30% mark... The car ran for about an 1.5 hrs total. They may have turned off the car for no more than a minute. I was there for 2hrs. The reason it ran for so long is because they...
Sorry about the second picture. These were taken from http://www.oilchangerinc.com/services/coolantservice.cfm"
If you would like to see the brochure from the manufacturers website (better pictures):
http://www.palmcrestinc.com/documents/LC2B.PDF"
and the Manual (7mb)...
Hello,
I know that this is a auto mechanical issue but I hope this is a question that someone here can shed some light on for me. It involves water pressure.
I recently had my coolant flushed at an Oil Changer shop in the bay area.
The kid hooked up a "Coolant Changer" machine to my...