ok my brothers car is building extremely excessive preasure in the radiator and it built up really fast (im talking within about a city block) the pressure was enough to blow the cap out of his hand and coat the entire front of the car in coolant where thinking its a blown head gasket
would that cause the temp gauge to spike over the top mark and cause that amount of pressure build up in that short amount of time
as usual any help is appreciated

 

most definetly a head gasket. Do you have any smoke comming from the exhuast? Best way to check for a bad head gasket is to do a compression test. If you come back with two consecutive bad cylinders, or at least just one bad cylinder, then i would suspect head gasket. Another possible thing would be a blockage somewhere in the lines. You could try doing a coolant flush

 

thanks for the advice we figured it out and he just put the radiator hoses on the wrong way its runnin just fine now

 

haha, wow i wouldnt have thought of that one. Sometimes the simplest solution is the correct one i guess

 

how the hell do you put radiator hoses on wrong

 

i know im trying to figure that one out too. Didnt know it could actually be backwards

 

well its a honda and this is the only car forum im a member of and i guess it goes from top of the radiatorto bottom of enginenot bottomofradiator to bottom of engine
i dont even know how it works but thanks for all the help

p.s. we checked the rediator gasses for exaust and there wasnt any so there isnt a blown head gasket

 

HONDA explains it all, lol

 

LMFAO