I haven't been able to entirely eliminate all the piping just yet but I would assume so as it wasn't over heating the few times I drove it before and they were for an hour or so where this was more like 20-40 minutes however as Cobber suggested the process of draining and then filling and the short time it may have been circulating could have loosened up a bunch of gunk/rust or whatever and caused a blockage and build up of pressure and maybe a hose split or something but I haven't had the time just yet to look into it much further... This connecter that you say has a tendency to fail under pressure whereabouts is this located and I'll make sure to have a close look in and around it!