Running Hot

There is no pressure in the system when it is hot.

if you have a completely closed air tight cooling system, you are definitely loosing pressure somewhere else as TB has said. there a number of other places it can loose pressure

Have you chked the oil lately?
If you have zero coolant system pressure when it's getting hot something is definitely up.
That coolant is going somewhere.
Have you had to keep putting coolant in it all along also?

also , is it puffing any white smoke , or is there a continual condensation in your exhaust pipes?