Car Overheating – How to Prevent

I got this new toy I can’t wait to try it out, now to pressure test the system you take the radiator cap off, but unfortunately there are a bunch of different sized radiator caps on cars nowadays, and rather than buy every single adapter…and there are dozens of them…this Pittsburgh Kit that I just got is cool.  It’s got a main adapter and then different sized plungers that go in to seal the radiator.  So when you pump it up you see if there’s a leak in the system.  In this case it’s a small one that fits in, so we put that inside here.  It just spins in then the whole assembly goes over the top and a little notches hold the side here…and then you just spin the top here until it gets tight, then you get the pump and attach it here and we pumped it up to about 15 pounds.  We’ll let it sit and see if it loses pressure, patience is indeed a virtue.  You wait five – ten minutes… see what happens to the pressure.  In this case it really hasn’t lost any pressure, so we know the system is not leaking… that it’s intact.  And just in case those are really small leak, we’ll look under see if it’s dripping anywhere from all that pressure, but now it’s not dripping anywhere so it’s not leaking!