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Originally Posted by Baltothewolf
Ok well no luck on adding fluid. Drive home, if I turned off the A/C trick you told me to do, I will slowly climb to 250F. I turn the A/C on (with heater on max) and it drops down to 210F. I'm at a complete loss.
Also, yea, I cut the top hose.
P.S Yes I topped off the resevour thingy with antifreeze.
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Topping off the reservoir won't help a bit unless you also top off the radiator.
Do it with a cold engine, both radiator and recovery bottle.
Drive it enough to get it to normal temperature then shut it down and let it cool off and refill radiator and recovery bottle. Repeat until radiator stays full when you check it cold and coolant level in the recovery bottle is at the minimum level mark when cold.
Then see if it it runs at normal temperature.
If it still runs hot and blows coolant out of the radiator into the recovery bottle or out on the ground, the odds are the head gasket is blown.
regards
Mech