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I bet its the head gasket on one or both sides The previous owner was a dumb ass. They drove with the cracked radiator until the coolant was too low. The engineoverheated with damaged the head gasket. Now exhaust gas is entering you cooling system displacing the coolant until the point that some pa...

Ok, I burped the radiator using the bleed screw for about 25 minutes. I then drove it around the block about 6 times before it started to slowly overheat. At 3/4 gauge I drove it back to my shop and let it idle. It began to heat up idling (Which it hadn't done before) so I shut it off. Looks to me l...

I checked the single spade connector (On the backside of the intake manifold, tapped into a coolant line, I'm assuming thats the right one). While I cannot trace the wire as it quickly goes into a larger loom, I cleaned the connection and put it back on. We will see if theres any difference after I'...

Exactly how quickly does the gauge peg itself? If it moves all the way from normal to the peg in less than a few seconds, that makes me suspect a short somewhere along the way between the temperature sensor lead and ground. The sender doesn't usually respond that quickly. The guage pegs within one ...

I've done a search, and found a few good threads on this topic, but before I start replacing things I'd like a few final opinions. I have a '90 Subaru Legacy FWD with the Ej22 motor, It has the (apparently common) problem of overheating when on the freeway but not while idling or at low engine speed...