well i got an update.....
replaced my radiator BUT there is still a problem. i think i got headgasket problem. my exhaust is smoking like crazy. here what happened:
yesterday i noticed that my "low coolant" light came on (i've had that thing come up 2 days before that, so i filled it up to "full"). that made me curious and worried because how could a whole reservoir be drained in 2 days. thats when i noticed my radiator problem. i got upset and talked to my step-dad, he said the only solution is to get a new radiator. so i got in my car and started to drive to the autoparts store. i noticed that in my rear view mirror some kind of smoke, it was my car. i pulled over (i was still in my neighborhood) and saw this smoke just coming out of my exhaust pipe... i was confused since i had no clue why it started to smoke that bad, so i drove back and parked it. used step-dad's car to get auto parts.
today, replaced the radiator, no problem. started the car, idled 'till it got to the normal heat temperature and just observed if i needed to add more coolant. then of course i wanted to take it for a spin. i started to drive around my driveway. 1st round i started to notice same problem about some smoke, by the 2nd lap i saw those clouds of smoke coming from the exhaust as yesterday. got back to my house and showed it to my step-dad.... he thinks it could be headgasket, which is possibly why i am smoking and also why i got crack in the radiator due to compression pulses (or he said something like that)....
what do u guys think? possible headgasket symptom?
i will take my car to an auto shop and stick those emission things in my pipe and try to see what exactly i am smoking.... *sigh*
any feedback is welcome,
thank you
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