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Old 05-26-2015, 04:46 PM   #1
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JFP, thanks for your answers. It is not that I didn't believe you...I just was hoping for another verdict, LOL! Sort of like getting another opinion when the diagnosis is cancer!
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Old 05-26-2015, 05:09 PM   #2
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JFP, thanks for your answers. It is not that I didn't believe you...I just was hoping for another verdict, LOL! Sort of like getting another opinion when the diagnosis is cancer!
There are only a limited number of ways to get a cooling system to over pressure; over heating is the obvious one, but a combustion pressure leak into the cooling system is also a reality.

To use your cancer analogy, it is time to stop speculation and start diagnostics. A leak down will show if one or more cylinders are losing gas pressure, the presence of combustion by products in the cooling system would also be a dead give away. If neither of these check out positive, you will have eliminated a major probability and can move on to look at the cooling system itself.

But you have to start someplace.............
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Old 05-26-2015, 05:13 PM   #3
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Same problem

I just replaced cap and o ring and still having problem. Could it be fixed by replacing the entire valve?
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Old 05-26-2015, 05:28 PM   #4
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Watery

If the coolant mix was slightly watery would this cause the condensation?
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