need help.....

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Oct 3, 2009 | 04:28 PM
  #1  
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.
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Oct 3, 2009 | 05:50 PM
  #2  
hmm check heater core hoses by the fire wall
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Oct 3, 2009 | 08:33 PM
  #3  
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
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Oct 4, 2009 | 12:31 PM
  #4  
definetly a leak if there is smoke from engine bay.. was there a puddle under the car when you came out next morning?
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Oct 4, 2009 | 01:38 PM
  #5  
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.
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Oct 12, 2009 | 11:26 AM
  #6  
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
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Oct 13, 2009 | 08:17 AM
  #7  
glad to here you got it fixed.. this is good info for future overheaters...lol
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Oct 16, 2009 | 09:03 AM
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Quote: glad to here you got it fixed.. this is good info for future overheaters...lol
Yep check you HOSES people please.
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Oct 16, 2009 | 05:00 PM
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Quote: 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.
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!
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Oct 17, 2009 | 12:47 AM
  #10  
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.
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