[Kurt in NJ]

If you fill it up to the top with the cap off and crank with the ignition off and it pushes water out you could have a head gasket problem or other combustion chamber to coolant system leak

If you drain to below the level of the tubes and look in the top of the radiator with a flashlight ---are the tops of the tubes open?? the radiator from my 36 has most of them closed off, I know I have to fix it before I run it