Comments by "John h Palmer" (@johnhpalmer6098) on "Legendary Acura Has Bigger Problems! 😳" video.
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 @JohnWilliams-wr3pc Yup, had that happen to my Mazda P5 back in the summer of '12, thankfully, no damage other than the thermostat itself needing to be replaced. Chooched along fine until the nipple to the upper hose came off, I JB welled that back together and that lasted a while longer until the hose would not stay on the upper bib, so at that point, the radiator got replaced, and yep, the car began to overheat, but what saved the say was running the heat full blast so the heater core took some of the pressure off the main radiator, and that saved my motor.
Still drive that car some 10 later with 193K+ miles on the clock and it still runs fine.
As you say, when the thermostat closes, it'll spew out of any orifice it'll find, that means where hoses get clamped to the motor etc and that's what happened when I opened my hood when the car overheated that first time in 2012.
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