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Old 05-09-2010, 01:33 AM   #4
that one legacy
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collapsed radiator hoses indicates that either the hoses are bad (reinforcements in the hoses have failed, causing them to collapse under vaccuum), or--like Frogs said above--there is a lot of air in the cooling system. Subies tend to spit a lot of coolant out of the exhaust when there is a headgasket failure (well that's what i've noticed anyway), but they don't always do that. last time i bled the cooling system in one of my cars I noticed that I had to wait a very long time for all the air to finally work out of the system. but if you bleed the system completely and then notice that the system is still drawing air in, then start checking around more. is your car leaking coolant at all? when i first got my red car i had a bad overheating problem with lots of coolant leaking. the timing belt was bad so i just went ahead and replaced it and the water pump. damn thing still leaked and overheated. it was then that i noticed a small hose coming out of the thermostat that I hadn't noticed before which was slashed open pretty bad. $3 worth of hose later, overheating problem was magically cured.
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