trapper

my younger brother took my chevy cheyenne hunting. well I told him to check the radiator and oil levels. well to make a long story short he left the radiator cap off. well then he decided to see how fast he could go and overheated it then tried to drive it back to the house. now it will turn over but then it looks like my battery is dead but it's not. So I was wondering what do you think happened

DAVID L. PAUL

don't know how much it had coold off when u tried starting but i've had overheated engines do that then start ok once they cooled down if dosen't turn over good after cooling down pull sparkplugs out sguirt each cylinder down with wd40 and try cry cranking over with plugs out if water blows out blown head gasket if not might free it up

Scoper50

What do you mean your battery "looks" like it's dead, but it's not?

trapper

i try to start it it turns over then everything dies the lights the gauges etc. and won't turn back on till i've taken and put back on the battery cables