MustangShane
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- Lake Orion, Mi
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- 1991 4dr XLT 4x4.
Okay I'll start off by telling you that a last year I replaced my water pump and thermostat. Then a month ago my upper hose went and I limped it home (I was within a couple miles). So I've replaced the upper and lower hoses and basically the sysem has flushed itself. I used the premixed antifreeze and last night I added 1/2 a gallon of water to the overflow bottle because it was empty. Then I ran it for 20-30 minutes. Now on my way to go wheeling this morning I noticed the guage was running higher than normal at about the "m" to be somewhat exact. I decided to turn around and good thing I did. I was half way home and it overheated and died. The only reason I ran it so long was I had two of my kids with me. I let it cool down and called my wife to come and get them and drove it home. I checked and the overflow bottle was frozen and there's antifreeze on the drivers side and I know the lower hose isnt torn. I checked the oil and no water in it. The cooling system was fine yesterday, and from the overflow bottle being frozen it doesn't seem the antifreeze was diluted by the water and froze my radiator. So I'm conerned about the headgaskets and with 180,000 miles on the original motor I know they would be suspect. But I dont seem to have any other signs of that, soooo anyone please tell me what you think it could be as far as an educated guess. Thanks in advance for any advice.