[david-b]

As you all know I had a problem with the car under heating and all. Replaced thermostat and then the heat didn't work. Flushed system and installed new coolant tank and it worked fine. Yesterday, the heat stopped working.

I figured it all out then. I've noticed after I drive and I park somewhere, there is then a puddle of coolant under my car on the coolant tank side. I didn't think anything of it considering I overflowed it a lot when I did it. Then the heat went out, so I knew something was up.

On the new tank, there was no pipe inside the tank to suck it back inside the radiator. I thought because the thing was so air tight, that it became like a vacuum and would suck it back in. Well, it didn't do that. So the overflow tank would fill up, and then spill out because it wouldnt get sucked back inside. So i took a little piece of pipe and put inside the tank going to the botoom and connected it to the pipe going to the exit pipe from coming from the thermostat housing. It was a perfect size, filled it up, and now it works perfect.

So basically, if you buy an aftermarket coolant tank, make sure you put something in there that will help the engine suck the coolant back in from the tank to the engine. That was my story.