Help car died on the way home, 95 ST Options

[jesse09]

Need some help as I'm not very mechanically inclined and would like to avoid mechanic costs. My celica died on my as soon as I got home. As I made a turn the battery and oil light came as the car died. Id say it's about a 15 minute drive. Checked oil levels and they were good. Temperature needle was good also. There seemed to be some steam coming from the power steering reservoir area from which I had a problem previously

About 2 weeks ago it started spraying water around the power steering reservoir area, couldn't really pinpoint the location as it was dark. I filled it with water and it ran fine until today.

If anyone know what could be the problem and how easy/hard it may be to fix pleas help lol thanks for the read. And here's a picture of the hose area where I think the original leak came from

[kevin311]

If the smoke appears to be coming from that side of the engine I would definitely pay attention to the belts. Trying cranking it up again and let it run for the 15-20 minutes you said it took to die, and see if it does it again. Keep the hood up and look, listen, and smell for anything unusual. Just keep an eye on the temp gauge every couple of minutes just to be safe.

I don't know of any components that would leak water on that side besides the water pump and A/C lines. The A/C lines will sweat at times but are hard pipes, not rubber. Not sure how water is getting on the power steering resevoir. Weird

I dont think a belt issue would cause a water leak. How bad is the leak? And can you smell anything when it does leak? Antifreeze has a distinct smell.

Post a few more pics of the engine bay if you can.