Q: Water it is not cycling to the motor is just staying in the radiator and then boiling over why is this and what can I do to fix it

asked by on February 01, 2017

Basically I had a bad water pump sorry placed it now for some reason I'm not getting water cycling through my motor it's just sitting in the radiator and when you warm up the truck both those his top bottom hose are still empty these are not pull water there's for air I understand how to get the water flowing to the motor but it's driving me nuts now it's leaking water everywhere you help me that be great thank you
My car has an automatic transmission.

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