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The car is spitting out water also becouse of the high pressure, it not from the overflow bottlecap but from the vent cap...the hoses are very hard and there is to much pressure in the system and the vent cap cant realinsing it all...
Im thiniking a stuck termostat or something like that...
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It could be many things, and should probably be checked out by a mechanic since any local overheating can cause metal or gasket damage. Something you said caught my eye, though. You said that the "security pin" had popped up. Might you be referring to the domed plastic device on top of the coolant reservoir near the filler cap? It has a wire bail/handle on the top in sort of a rectangular shape. It is normally roughly horizontal. If you lever it up to vertical, it lifts a plastic pin through the top of the dome. The purpose of that assembly is to vent excess air out of the cooling system, usually after a drain/refill cycle. The 996/997 cooling system is virtualy horizontal, front to rear, allowing lot of places for air pockets to form. Air pockets may equal uncooled places and uneven cooling or localized overheating. So, it's important to be able to vent excess air and can done with the motor running/hot. Anyway, the normal position for the wire bail is horizontal. In vertical/vent mode, it may even allow hot coolant to escape....and, maybe cause steam clouds as the coolant hits hot things.
The car is not overheating, all temps are normal....But the car has allot of pressure in the coolant system..The over pressure valve is realising and are opened when the car is stopped and there is a lot of pressure in the system, the car has not been worked or any thing and air doesnt get in the system by it self...
As i understand the vent pin should always be in "down" mode when driving and only "up" when venting the system
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The cooling system will be under pressure after a drive. Did you happen to notice the reading on the temp gauge?
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But the overpressure valve is realising and the system cant hold the water, and its porring out from the overflow bottle so this is not right
Overpressure in cooling system
in 996 GT3
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Yes but his is all the way upp like when you pull it upp...and there is no arir in the system he has vented it like 20 times and the pressure is there .....And there has been no work on the car so it shouldnt be any air in the system....