Anyone have any ideas?
I have recently rebuilt engine - 3vzfe, but it keeps using water.. it had new radiator, new HFH all the way fromt the block to the matrix new thermostat and new rad cap and the pump was in good condition and not one of the ones which was badly designed.
since then the car keeps having low water when checked, i bled it in the correct way but i have to keep topping the water up as it gets down the filler neck, and not in the top pipe from the rad to the filler neck.
yesterday i ran for 40 miles and then had a touch of traffic 10 mins or so on motorway and it developed a misfire and i had to hard shoulder it. on inspection the misfire was really bad with no pull and the expantion tank had spilled over.
i got towed as was unsafe to work on, and at the services the misfire was slightly better but water was low.
on arriving home the misfire was all but gone.
the misfire and the water might not be linked but i dont know for sure as the misfire has been appearing slightly in the past month when engine warm.
the last thing is that the temp guage didnt rise above half way, but i will have to check its working correctly, as i had to reposition the needle to remove some gash white dials, i will check the resistance to temp and check its correct but i believe it is, althought the water level always seem to drop below the height of the sender anyway!
anyone got any ideas? does it just need a re bleed? or is it the rad cap? its a halfrauds cap.. anyone got bad expeiances of them?
cheers!