Spring Car Checkup – Cooling System
We’ve made the turn into spring and summer isn’t far away. You should be getting your car ready for the warmer temperatures. With this in mind, we take a look at cooling system issues in this article.
The cooling system is a fairly simple mechanism. The entire goal of the system is to gather and dispense heat. It does this by running through key areas of the engine where the coolant sucks the heat in away from the moving parts of the engine. The coolant is then pumped to the radiator where the coolant is spread out across a field of metal that is exposed to the onrushing air. The heat in the coolant is dispensed into the air and the coolant starts its return to the engine.
Performing a checkup on your coolant system is one of the easier things you’ll do. A word of warning. Only do the checkup when the system is cool. A hot system is under pressure and you really do not want to end up in the hospital due to coolant burns. Hot bad. Cold good. Enough said.