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Oct 3, 2009 | 04:28 PM

dario

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need help.....

My dad drove car yesterday and said the car started to smoke under the hood just as he arrived home. So today I checked all of the fluids and everything was fine except it was very low on antifreeze. SO i bought Toyota antifreeze and added the whole gallon into radiator and reservoir. Went for a test drive and the car started to overheat within 15 minutes and it started to smoke under the hood. I oppened the hood and I heard like "wooosh" sound where the smoke was coming from kind of sound when you pour a water over hot pipe. The smoke is coming from the back of the engine behind intake manifold. Any thoughts??? I cannot have car checked before monday.

Oct 3, 2009 | 05:50 PM

1stGS30

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hmm check heater core hoses by the fire wall

Oct 3, 2009 | 08:33 PM

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is it loosing fluid? maybe there's a leak in a hose, dripping onto the exhaust mani? there's SOOOOOOOO many things it can be

Oct 4, 2009 | 12:31 PM

Aristoman

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definetly a leak if there is smoke from engine bay.. was there a puddle under the car when you came out next morning?

Oct 4, 2009 | 01:38 PM

yusef

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Check the heater hose way in the back of the engine by the firewall. When my car was constantly overheating i found out it was that hose that was cracked. like deknick said it could be a lot of things.

Oct 12, 2009 | 11:26 AM

dario

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Well thank you all for help. I did the pressure test and found the coolant was leaking from one of the hoses. Did the custom hose and put it on then I replaced the coolant with Toyota Red Long Life and baby runs like brand new again

Oct 13, 2009 | 08:17 AM

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glad to here you got it fixed.. this is good info for future overheaters...lol

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Oct 16, 2009 | 05:00 PM

mkiiisupra

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Originally Posted by yusef

Same exact thing happened on my Supra when I had it. Two friends and I had to push it uphill about 100 feet night on time and that things a tank!

Oct 17, 2009 | 12:47 AM

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Glad to see you did get it fixed. +1 for checking your hoses, especially in older cars. Imagine if it popped on the freeway or something and you couldn't pull over immediately or something.