Hey Supra fans!
Well, I was driving around and smelled a bit of antifreeze, but it was only momentary and didn't think anything of it (thought it was someone else's car). Then, I parked the car and I smelled it again. I walked around to the front and saw a nice little stream of green coolant trickling down from under my car.
uppydog: Popping the hood, I could see that it was coming from the front, driver's side of my engine. At first I thought it was coming from the thermostat housing, perhaps the gasket blew. Well, that seemed fine. The hoses seem fine as well. It seems as if the coolant is coming from somewhere just under the distributor. I couldn't get a good look at, and since I'm not in my home town (I'm in Vancouver right now) I don't have much in terms of tools or places to fix this.
Anyway, a temporary solution so far seems to be to park the car facing up on an incline (when it was parked facing down it was leaking a fair bit). It stopped leaking, but it's possible it just ran out of coolant?!? Now the reservoir is empty, I'll fill it with water and see how it goes, although I'm not sure I wanna drive this anywhere right now.
So I guess right now I'm wondering, what's the most likely possibility here? A little history on the car: Before I drove it out to Vancouver I flushed the rad a few times and changed the thermostat along with some hoses. I did have some heating problems while on the mountains, but nothing too serious, and nothing too surprising as my brad is missing some of the fins and perhaps doesn't dissipate heat as well as it should. But the overheating was only on the highway, only when it was really hot out and only when I was pushing the car hard. Since I arrived the engine has been running solid. Any thoughts on the matter???
I plan to go to the Vancouver mini-meet this Thursday, but if any Vancouver locals want to help me fix this ASAP, I would really appreciate it (dinner and beers on me).
- Mike
Well, I was driving around and smelled a bit of antifreeze, but it was only momentary and didn't think anything of it (thought it was someone else's car). Then, I parked the car and I smelled it again. I walked around to the front and saw a nice little stream of green coolant trickling down from under my car.
Anyway, a temporary solution so far seems to be to park the car facing up on an incline (when it was parked facing down it was leaking a fair bit). It stopped leaking, but it's possible it just ran out of coolant?!? Now the reservoir is empty, I'll fill it with water and see how it goes, although I'm not sure I wanna drive this anywhere right now.
So I guess right now I'm wondering, what's the most likely possibility here? A little history on the car: Before I drove it out to Vancouver I flushed the rad a few times and changed the thermostat along with some hoses. I did have some heating problems while on the mountains, but nothing too serious, and nothing too surprising as my brad is missing some of the fins and perhaps doesn't dissipate heat as well as it should. But the overheating was only on the highway, only when it was really hot out and only when I was pushing the car hard. Since I arrived the engine has been running solid. Any thoughts on the matter???
I plan to go to the Vancouver mini-meet this Thursday, but if any Vancouver locals want to help me fix this ASAP, I would really appreciate it (dinner and beers on me).
- Mike