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Ok. Let's step back for a minute.
1) Put back the spark plug wire in.
2) Try getting the air out of the system (as suggested by SquareHead). Also helps to massage the upper hoses when you do that.
3) Then try the flush, and also need to get the air out of the system.
4) Then try the headgasket test.
"Always do the cheap and easy ones first."
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Wouldn't he know if it's a HG by the car running like complete crap?
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Originally posted by todras:
Wouldn't he know if it's a HG by the car running like complete crap?
Car would run rough with a missing wire to the plug too. I am assuming he does not know that a blown HG would cause the car to run rough.
"Always do the cheap and easy ones first."
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Originally posted by todras:
Wouldn't he know if it's a HG by the car running like complete crap?
Don"t b a meanie  !!! We're all on here 2 help each other 
The car is running fine!!! I jus have no heat and the resevoir starts to bubble when I start my car!!!
I honestly believe that the car has airlock or a clogged cooling system and in either case, it needs 2 b flushed!!
Thats jus my opinion( U know whut they say bout opinions)!!! 
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There could be a severe blockage in the system besides air.
When the sits at idle, where does the temp guage go to?
Over the M A L into the red? How fast does it get there?
How is the tensioner on the Serp. belt? No slippage?
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When the car sit's at idle it stay's at normal, the gauge is working!!! It may take a least an hr b4 it overheats. There is no slippage on any of the belts and the tensioner is fine???????? 
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thermostat. Or it is frozen like my car was last week. If there isn't anything in the upper hose on the left then the thermo isn't opening. Or there is a MAJOR block in the radiator. Change the thermo and go from there...or make sure it is the right way in there
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Are the high speed fans coming on? Once the temp needle hits just under 3/4 they should be on. At this temp you should feel lost of circulation by the thermo housing. The thermo opens and coolant passes through. What about the lower return line? any flow there? No circulation = overheating. 
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Major Radiator block I believe, nothing wrong with the thermostat and it's in the right way!!
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