Thanks good advice. what do you mean by overheated? How do you overheat the engine? in other words what do you do to it that would make it overheat?
Low oil, wrong type of oil, and or low radiator fluid, clogged up radiator inside or out will cause the heat to build up in the engine - without the dissipation of heat, metal will start to change shape, once it does - permanent damage will occur, seals and gaskets will split and it goes downhill from there - typically seizing occurs.
Radiator coolant will effectively cool the engine about 90%, the oil cools the other 10%!
Checking the temp of any engine is very important and not to be overlooked!
Radiator plugged with dirt, operator does not know what the screen is for, operator did not pay enough attention to the gauges-which would tell him when the engine's running warmer than normal. Engine coolant runs hot because the external parts of the radiator are plugged with dirt/debris which restricts air flow across the radiator core/fins, which then boils the coolant. Continuing to run it, the engine actually got so hot internally that the pistons basically weld themselves to the cylinder walls. This takes a little while based on my own experience and it's usually accompanied by a gauge that's pegged into the red/hot area, the smell of boiling coolant leaking from the overflow bottle, engine loss of power, and finally the engine just stops. Usually abruptly, right after a loss of power. The loss of power is the pistons trying to weld themselves to the cylinders and the engine stopping IS the welding. Let it cool off and it might or might not start back up. This particular one did, barely, on one cylinder-or actually more like 1/2 of one cylinder (no power whatsoever, would barely self-sustain).
