how a hose made me think i blew the headgasket

[queenskid926]

these where the symptons, at cold starup everything is fine,
when warm the car will not idle and miss under any amount of load, partial throttle or full,
Steam coming from under neath the hood,
coolant all over the motor under the hood,
missing coollant, low indicator light came on
Steam out of the exhaust.

The answer? The coolant hose that runs from the intake manifold right behind the idle speed control to the throtlle body was dry rotted and started leaking. When warm, I caught it leaking coolant over the spark plug galley and it was leaking even worse at another spot thats was almost hidden, it was right where the hose touches my strut tower brace and the brace actually was like a bandaid slowing the leak down but i guess vibration or when going over a bump it would just literally squirt collant all over, and then flow down to the sparkplug galley and seep to the plugs and cause the miss and coolant getting into the cylinders.

What a relief lol

Now I change that one hose ( it was late at nite) And it got better, takes longer to do it now but it still does so my guess is that if that hose dry rotted im sure the other coolant hoses did as well so my plan is too change all the coolant hoses and plugs and that should fix it.

Has any one ever exsperience this before?

Im just relieved that it wasn't the headgasket .............
this time lol

 

[supraman508]

The coolant hose that runs from the intake manifold right behind the idle speed control to the throtlle body was dry rotted and started leaking.

Thanks for this information i'll check those hoses

 

[queenskid926]

Thanks for this information i'll check
those hoses

no problem

i was really about to say fuck it and drop my 1j in right now but i wanted to wait until it was warmer, its freezind outside here in ny right now.

I had to get my csi investigatrion skillz on and tryning to see where all this coolant was coming from, Tracing the splatter pattern and everything lol

 

[supraman508]

no problem

i was really about to say fuck it and drop my 1j in right now but i wanted to wait until it was warmer, its freezind outside here in ny right now.

I had to get my csi investigatrion skillz on and tryning to see where all this coolant was coming from, Tracing the splatter pattern and everything lol

last night when i saw that steam my stomach felt like it was bout to turn inside do to i've done 2 head jobs since LAST MAY.don't want to do a 3rd one.:cry:

 

[queenskid926]

last night when i saw that steam my stomach felt like it was bout to turn inside do to i've done 2 head jobs since LAST MAY.don't want to do a 3rd one.:cry:

lol ive blown too motors since last december lol,. one 7mge and another gte. :3d_frown::3d_frown::3d_frown:

Now i just bought this 87 5spd n/a and its perfect in every way, until this issue came up and i was like aww fuck time to a swap in the snow

 

[queenskid926]

update, thats was the only hose that was leaking but i replaced the others for insurance, pull off the spark plug wires and wat do i see, red toyota coolant all inside around the plug galley.and oil and coolant in the last 2, guess valve covers where leaking also. changed plugs and installed ngk wires, start up was a lil rough do to the coolant and oil that dropped down but after a few minutes and all that coolant was burned up, she is running great.

 

[supraman508]

update, thats was the only hose that was leaking but i replaced the others for insurance, pull off the spark plug wires and wat do i see, red toyota coolant all inside around the plug galley.and oil and coolant in the last 2, guess valve covers where leaking also. changed plugs and installed ngk wires, start up was a lil rough do to the coolant and oil that dropped down but after a few minutes and all that coolant was burned up, she is running great.

congrads man,can't beat the feeling when u can figure out what the problem is and solve it.

 

[queenskid926]

word i also swapped in my bore out throtlle body and installed my cold air intake kit i had lying around so it got a lil more umph 2 it

lol, just a lil bit tho.

congrads man,can't beat the feeling when u can figure out what the problem is and solve it.

 

[supraman508]

word i also swapped in my bore out throtlle body and installed my cold air intake kit i had lying around so it got a lil more umph 2 it

lol, just a lil bit tho.

dat sounds awesome man theirs a junkyard near my house that has a 7mgte engine and everything intact.He's asking 450 bucks which is a still.unfortunitly i live in a apartment complex so i don't have a garage dam,so i'm just gona settle for the paint job next feb.now it will be very cold up here in hagerstown at that time,but would the freezing temp mess the paint job?

 

[queenskid926]

dat sounds awesome man theirs a junkyard near my house that has a 7mgte engine and everything intact.He's asking 450 bucks which is a still.unfortunitly i live in a apartment complex so i don't have a garage dam,so i'm just gona settle for the paint job next feb.now it will be very cold up here in hagerstown at that time,but would the freezing temp mess the paint job?

im not a an exspert and you should sarch or open a thread about that but i would think that the temps would affect how the paint would cure after the paint job, Just my logic from using bondo or spray paint and it says use above so and so temp.