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Your gas cap isn't holding pressure in the tank. Same thing happened to me. Get a new cap.
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new therostat if it was water pump it would be leaking
My bad. Its the overflow tank. The water wont boil under pressure.Your gas cap isn't holding pressure in the tank. Same thing happened to me. Get a new cap.
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Not necessarily, I have changed water pumps in older cars where the pump blades had eroded from lack of cooling system maintenance. That resulted in overheating.
I had a 2001 Lincoln LS with the same engine that I owned for 15 years. The gurgling is an indication of low coolant level causing the engine to overheat. My first problem causing gurgling was a crack in the coolant overflow tank. I replaced the tank and that fixed the problem for a while. Next up was a cracked thermostat housing. These engines have a plastic thermostat housing which will crack due to age. After replacing the thermostat housing, the car ran well for a short while. But in the end, so much overheating caused a head gasket to fail.
