2011 3.6L CXL Overheating After Putting Intake Back On

[realdkayers]

I recently had to replace a couple of ignition coils and spark plugs in Cylinders 3 & 5 to fix I misfire I had. The coils for 3 & 5 are only accessible by taking off the intake manifold.

Putting everything back together took a while because I snapped the PCV line (don’t know why these are cheap plastic), but I eventually replaced the PCV line with a OEM part. I took a drive around my neighborhood afterwards & although I cleared the misfire and all of my codes, the engine was starting to overheat within 5 minutes after a cold start.

I opened it back up, lo and behold, I saw the connector on the Coolant Breather Pipe (pictured below) was snapped as well. While I wait for that part to arrive, I simply just crimped the hose to where it leads, to hold it over for a couple of days… Started it up, and overheating just the same.

Did I do something wrong when re-installing the intake manifold, or would it have something more to do with the Coolant Breather Pipe? Admittedly this is my first time having to take off an intake manifold on any car, but I made sure I payed attention to important parts such as the manifold gasket, etc… Really would like to solve this without having to take the car into a shop.

 

[ThaCancer69]

I recently had to replace a couple of ignition coils and spark plugs in Cylinders 3 & 5 to fix I misfire I had. The coils for 3 & 5 are only accessible by taking off the intake manifold.

Putting everything back together took a while because I snapped the PCV line (don’t know why these are cheap plastic), but I eventually replaced the PCV line with a OEM part. I took a drive around my neighborhood afterwards & although I cleared the misfire and all of my codes, the engine was starting to overheat within 5 minutes after a cold start.

I opened it back up, lo and behold, I saw the connector on the Coolant Breather Pipe (pictured below) was snapped as well. While I wait for that part to arrive, I simply just crimped the hose to where it leads, to hold it over for a couple of days… Started it up, and overheating just the same.

Did I do something wrong when re-installing the intake manifold, or would it have something more to do with the Coolant Breather Pipe? Admittedly this is my first time having to take off an intake manifold on any car, but I made sure I payed attention to important parts such as the manifold gasket, etc… Really would like to solve this without having to take the car into a shop.

Your are loosing coolant from where that hard plastic goes into right behind the power steering resivor

 

[PulpFriction]

Most commonly air in the cooling system