I was driving and the temperature gauge went up but I was only a couple miles from home so I continued on hoping to check the antifreeze when I got there. Right before I made it smoke started pouring out from the hood so I stopped and turned off the car for a few minutes then drove home very slowly. When I got home I looked under the hood and it seemed like maybe the radiator was discolored (white) and there was green coolant leaked out and in small puddles. Is this really a busted radiator and is it ruined? If not, approximately how much is it for a new one and is it easy to replace?
2007-09-24 12:43:56 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Cars & Transportation ➔ Car Makes ➔ Toyota
If I have damaged the engine, is that replaceable? Do I just buy a whole new engine?
2007-09-24 15:21:07 · update #1
The smoking is a good sign, you still had coolant in your system. I doubt your head is warped or cracked. My best guess is you have a rad hose break, it splashed coolant all over the place and the white stuff you see is the calcuim crap in the coolant (last guy didn't use distilled water to mix with anti-freeze 50/50). Replace both lower and upper radiator hoses, check the heater core hoses (they go inside the car near your feet to a small heater core). Replace them if they are soft as well, this way you can drive your Toyota another 120,000 miles.
Rad hoses do go soft and break on every car, I make it a point to change them after every 120,000 miles.
2007-09-24 14:17:43 · answer #1 · answered by Josh B 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1992 Toyota Camry Radiator
2016-10-30 05:10:55 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I bought a 1992 Toyota Camry and had the exact problem you had. I had the car towed because mine would run hot after about 10 minutes of slow driving. 1 mechanic shop told me to sell the car because after they took it apart there was nothing wrong that they could see but because of the car running hot so fast they felt it was a warped head. I then took it to a shop where I had taken it to before and the owner also owned a 1992 Camry. H e flushed the radiator and sealed the right coolant bottle because their were air bubbles in the line which caused it to run hot. That was 2 months ago and it hasn't run hot since.
2007-10-01 06:50:14 · answer #3 · answered by lashawnda s 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your 92 Camry has a plastic upper radiator tank and with age they due have a tendency to crack open and shoot out coolant on the exhaust manifold causing your steam effect. At this point you need to have your car towed to a mechanic to get an estimate on repairs. It would be in your best interest to also replace the thermostat and flush out the system if you did not blow the head gasket. A radiator cost about 250.00 plus labor. A head gasket cost about 750.00 plus the cost of parts.
2007-09-25 02:14:16 · answer #4 · answered by tacomatrdbkk 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you ran the engine with low or NO coolant, you may have done more damage to engine. Aluminum heads warp easily.
Add water to radiator and see where the leak is and go (fix) from there. Hopefully just a hose blew....easy fix. Prepare for the worst though.
2007-09-24 12:50:03 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Milky colored oil is a mixture of oil and coolant. Most likely from blown head gasket allowing coolant to get into the oil passages and then down into your oil pan. That's probably why the owner sold the car. This is a serious problem as anti-freeze is very corrosive to engine bearings and will destroy them in no time. Have a garage do a cylinder compression check to confirm it's a blown head gasket. If so, have a new head gasket installed (not cheap) soon. Make sure the garage gives your engine oil system a good flushing to get rid of any residual anti-freeze. It will destroy your engine bearings if it's not all cleaned out. It's like sulfuric acid to bearings.
2016-05-17 22:17:02 · answer #6 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sadly enough it may be much more than a radiator usually what happens when a motor of that category (aluminum ) get overheated what happens is the head gasket is damaged or the cylinder head is cracked or warped it may be worth the expense to get a mechanic to check it out but dont get your hopes too high
2007-09-24 12:52:03 · answer #7 · answered by jim1 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are a dozen places coolant can leak from. You'll have to figure out WHERE it's leaking before you can fix it.
You MAY have also damaged the engine by overheating it. GOOD LUCK
2007-09-24 12:50:15 · answer #8 · answered by Trump 2020 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
From your question it seems to me you might have a blow-en head gasket. I would not drive it if i was you. If you have a repair shop that you go to. Call them and they will more then likely pick it up for you and bring it to they shop. They will then look at it and determine what damage was done.
2007-09-26 12:30:28 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
well, they stated the extreme cases. why dont you try checking the thermostat, seeing if it froze and needs to be replaced. second, try flushing your cooling system, maybe you have a kink or bubble somewhere. if all that fails, take it to your mechanic, you might have some head issues.
2007-09-24 13:10:11 · answer #10 · answered by enhancedquang 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋