:werd: does your rad have the plastic sides? sometimes they split and squirt stuff all over the place but that is more common on GM. make sure all the hoses are firmly attached to the rad, and I mean man handle them, mine blew the upper hose right offbecause the male part of the connection broke off. but i do not know about the screaching, might have been that for some reason your temp spiked and it shot a ton of coolant to the resivour and it overflowed, hence the empty resivour when the engine took it back. check your hoses and it might be time to flush your cooling system

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