Overheating and no heat.. Help please

[Habby73]

Originally Posted by Meir

question is, where did the 3 gallon of coolant go?

Yeah, I have no idea. The guy i bought it from said he did a lot of the maintenance himself, and the service manual didn't come with it, so I'm wondering if he ever really used one when working on it. 3 gallons of coolant is a lot, and just proves how bulletproof these engines are! Ran on almost no coolant and didn't blow any gaskets.

[KRAM36]

Originally Posted by Habby73

LOL knowing that you have that bleeder valve sure does help things... wow...

Did you find the bleeder valve?



Mine got pretty hot, red light came on.

[Steve Tinker]

Originally Posted by Habby73

Yeah, I have no idea. The guy i bought it from said he did a lot of the maintenance himself, and the service manual didn't come with it, so I'm wondering if he ever really used one when working on it. 3 gallons of coolant is a lot, and just proves how bulletproof these engines are! Ran on almost no coolant and didn't blow any gaskets.

You have a major problem - 3 gallons of coolant is a serious leak....

1) Check your oil level to see if there is coolant / oil intermix.
2) Did you "bleed" the system after refilling with coolant?
3) What did you fill the coolant overflow bottle with - some off the shelf coolant fluids react to the Porsche coolant causing gelling"?.
4) If in doubt, get the system pressure checked by a reputable Porsche specialist.

[Skootnasty]

Is your oil 3 gallons over full by any chance? It had to go somewhere, I would take it (maybe even tow it) to be pressure tested and checked for intermix.

I wouldn't write this off as a fluke on account of the previous owner. I would much more suspect someone passing off a problem car onto an unsuspecting buyer.

Skoot

[Habby73]

Well, I'm doing an oil change today so we'll see if an idiot previously worked on the car(likely), the car is burning a bit(common), if it it's in the oil (unlikely at this point)