Coolant Bubbling
My bus has been sitting for some months, and I need to move it about 1000 feet into the shade since it's getting hot... so I started it up, walked around for a about 5 minutes or so to let it warm up and came back and there was some water shooting and spraying out of my radiator! I ran to turn it off and came back to the engine and my coolant was bubling like crazy for a while... I could find where the coolant is coming out of the radiator... looked into a thread that had a similar issue and saw that my air compressor IS connected to a coolant line on top... it looks like a small amount of water is actually leaking out of the air compressor so I'm guessing it has a blown head gasket or cracked block...? Also it has a bit of rust so it looks like it's been leaking out a small amount for a while... I checked my oil and it seems fine... coolant level is topped off... I'm wondering what to do next, and if it would be okay to just start her up real quick and move her into the shade while I try to figure this out...
I'm thinking it could be either a thermostat, air compressor headgasket/block, head gasket in the engine or a cracked engine block.... Pic 1 is showing the air compressor where the water is leaking out its kind of sideways...
Pic 2 is the coolant line connecting to the air compressor...
Pic 3 is the air compressor
Pic 4 radiator
Pic 5 engine model
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