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ChadCy75 · 07-21-2009, 09:31 AM

No, it's not blowing the cap off, but it's popping the center of the cap. Also, while the two o-rings seal the cap, you still have screw it down, and for some reason, mine is always just a hare-bit crossthreaded, because it never seems to be flush all the way around, which is why I was wondering if anybody has ever used a reservoir from a different car to get away from this problem. The reason the oil was so dirty was because the last guy who had the car didn't take care of it. I bought the car back in May, and since I had to get it inspected anyway, I had the oil changed at the same time. Well, the next day, I figured I would check the oil to make sure it was still full, because I had just bought the car, and I noticed that while you could tell it had been changed, it looked dirtier than it should have. This past Saturday, I had it changed it again, and yesterday, it still looked like brand new oil, so it's taking more than one shot to get things straightened out. It doesn't have a mixture of Dex-Cool and regular green coolant, because for the first two weeks after I got the car, I was having the same overheating problem, but that time, it was the cap. Instead of putting coolant into it, I was putting water in it, because it didn't make sense to go through fifty dollars a week in coolant, so for over a month, I was running plain, ordinary water in it. Ever since I got this car, I've had to constantly check the coolant level, which is no big deal, but having that temperature needle hang around the 3/4 mark makes me nervous, which is why I just want to switch to a totally different reservoir. It has only been doing that since yesterday, but even so....... The first time around, I was able to switch out the cap, and it pretty much solved the problem, but now that the reservoir is starting to blow that pop-up device in the center of the cap, and it's done that to two different reservoir caps, the last of which it didn't even take a whole day to blow, I just want to switch to a different reservoir altogether, mostly so I don't have to worry about whether the cap is seated properly or not, because with this particular car, it always takes at least five tries to get it right, and sometimes it takes thirty minutes and it still isn't right. What I'm dealing with here is a design flaw, and I'm hoping somebody else has dealt with this in the same way already. Or if anybody knows of a good after market reservoir?

07-21-2009, 09:31 AM	#7
ChadCy75 GX Member Join Date: May 2009 Location: York, PA Posts: 35	No, it's not blowing the cap off, but it's popping the center of the cap. Also, while the two o-rings seal the cap, you still have screw it down, and for some reason, mine is always just a hare-bit crossthreaded, because it never seems to be flush all the way around, which is why I was wondering if anybody has ever used a reservoir from a different car to get away from this problem. The reason the oil was so dirty was because the last guy who had the car didn't take care of it. I bought the car back in May, and since I had to get it inspected anyway, I had the oil changed at the same time. Well, the next day, I figured I would check the oil to make sure it was still full, because I had just bought the car, and I noticed that while you could tell it had been changed, it looked dirtier than it should have. This past Saturday, I had it changed it again, and yesterday, it still looked like brand new oil, so it's taking more than one shot to get things straightened out. It doesn't have a mixture of Dex-Cool and regular green coolant, because for the first two weeks after I got the car, I was having the same overheating problem, but that time, it was the cap. Instead of putting coolant into it, I was putting water in it, because it didn't make sense to go through fifty dollars a week in coolant, so for over a month, I was running plain, ordinary water in it. Ever since I got this car, I've had to constantly check the coolant level, which is no big deal, but having that temperature needle hang around the 3/4 mark makes me nervous, which is why I just want to switch to a totally different reservoir. It has only been doing that since yesterday, but even so....... The first time around, I was able to switch out the cap, and it pretty much solved the problem, but now that the reservoir is starting to blow that pop-up device in the center of the cap, and it's done that to two different reservoir caps, the last of which it didn't even take a whole day to blow, I just want to switch to a different reservoir altogether, mostly so I don't have to worry about whether the cap is seated properly or not, because with this particular car, it always takes at least five tries to get it right, and sometimes it takes thirty minutes and it still isn't right. What I'm dealing with here is a design flaw, and I'm hoping somebody else has dealt with this in the same way already. Or if anybody knows of a good after market reservoir?