Top radiator hose is not moving fluid

[dustyinthedirt]

I have not converted to open cooling yet. I am planning on it though. The temp gauge gets up there in the red pretty quick. I know theres a little air in the lines but the top radiator hose is not moving fluid at all. is this the water pump? Also i think someone put stop leak in it cause the fluid in the reservoir looks like it has some grainy sawdust looking stuff in it.

this stuff was foamy feeling. What is it though?!

 

 

[DirtyComanche]

No coolant comes out of that while running?

 

I don't know what the grainy stuff is, it could just be that hard water was used to mix with glycol, but it probably isn't a good thing.

 

I'd take everything apart and flush all of it with a hose and see where you're at. That includes pulling the thermostat housing, the water pump, upper and low rad hoses, expansion bottle, heater lines, etc. If things are all packed with that sort of junk, then you can try cleaning it out chemically or by continued flushing, but you might be in a bad situation where you're going to be replacing a lot of stuff.

[dustyinthedirt]

I am planning on switching to open cooling but if its in the heater core I'm pretty screwed huh?

[dustyinthedirt]

and coolant does flow through there. it has a cap

[DirtyComanche]

If you have flow there, but not through the top hose, your thermostat is probably stuck. Which makes sense if that stuff is all through the cooling system. Alternatively the radiator might be completely plugged, or the water pump outlet is plugged, but those are unlikely unless somebody left something in there at some point.

 

Take things apart and flush it. You might not need to change the heater core, but unless you can get it flushed out it will probably never make good heat.

[dustyinthedirt]

Thanks Dirty!!! I will post up on the build page when i convert if that fixes it