Just bought the car, has not run for eight month's. It was running hot.
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Jumped start battery dead. Filled radiator turned key the water in radiator shoots straight up in the air. Never saw anything like that. Had a lot of cars overheat. The car had not been started in eight months.
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That's usually the result of compression leaking into the cooling system water jacket as engine is cranking .. You can be 99% sure it has a blown head gasket!