i'm not saying guess of course but yeah find it out of course but thats the order i would do it anyways .... me personally no matter what it was i would replace hoses and flush the systen with what is leaking

 

like for my 1990 terrano i have a water pump gasket leak right now and i am going to replace the water pump and gaskets i am also going to replace the belts as well and hoses of course thats just me though (it is a pathfinder in the states

 

Yeah that's all great and everything, but if thoses things are not whats causing the car to overheat he's still got a problem after all that work.

 

I think what Kauai Kane was trying to say was with a car as old as that it wouldn't hurt to replace things like that sa you go, because they are getting up there in age

 

Wow,you guys are mighty responsive, all this help in under 24 hours. Here is the skinny, talked with her and it turns out it had a blown head gasket when she bought it...last year:doh:. She informs me it is blowing coolant out the exhaust pipe, yikes. Sounds to me like the car is screwed, thoughshe says she can get a rebuilt motor for $200, which sounds pretty questionable to me. She ain't got the dough to buy new, so she may need to get that head gasket taken care of, duh. Why you drive a car that is bleeding to deathis beyond me, it is so much cheaper to fix it now than to wait. Thanks for all the input though, I was looking for questions to drill her with to narrow it down, y'all have been most helpful, I love this site

 

for instance I know if your water pump is about to go the car will feel very very sluggish.
In my old hoopty I knew my water pump was about to go when my couldnt make it to 60mph on a downhill.

I made it home at least and then the car died in my driveway. At the end the water pump needed to be replaced. Now the car just sits in my driveway as a spare car.

 

Fixing that head gasket is gonna cost more than the car is worth unless you can get some sweet deal somehow especially if the head is warped which it very well could be if shes been driving it this way for some time. She may need to look at some junked cars for parts.

How long has it been overheating for? Because the overheating may have started before the blown headgasket which means that problem still needs to be corrected.

 

how does a 83 accord looks like?

 

200 bucks? i want one...

 

Head gasket blown for about 8 months, probably finally warped the head. Her boyfriend has a hookup for a low mileage JDM motor, you know how they pull them at like 60k or something and replace them, anyway, it is a boxy little 4 door, probably not worth fixing