 Help car died on the way home, 95 ST |
 Oct 3, 2014 - 12:14 PM
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Enthusiast  Joined Jan 19, '09 From Texas Currently Offline Reputation: 12 (100%)  |
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 
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Oct 3, 2014 - 10:40 PM
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 Enthusiast Joined Dec 23, '12 From North Carolina Currently Offline Reputation: 1 (100%) |
Yeah some pics might help me help you. If it looks like the leak is behind the manifold, it could be the heater hose. On my GT, the top radiator hose runs to the transmission side of the motor to the outlet, and then the 2 heater hoses run from that outlet to the firewall, behind and kind of under the intake manifold. If you had nothing but water in the radiator that's why you can't smell it. Lol but I don't blame you if it's got a spewing leak.
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jesse09 Help car died on the way home Oct 3, 2014 - 12:14 PM
kevin311 Will it crank back up? Oct 3, 2014 - 4:00 PM jesse09 Not immediately after about 5-10 minutes it will.. Oct 3, 2014 - 4:17 PM kevin311 Is the check engine light staying on?
If water i... Oct 3, 2014 - 4:59 PM jesse09 Check engine light does not come on. It used to sc... Oct 3, 2014 - 6:18 PM kevin311 If the smoke appears to be coming from that side o... Oct 3, 2014 - 7:11 PM jesse09 Ok I will try that. Sometimes it's just a slig... Oct 3, 2014 - 10:20 PM Smaay you can play the guessing game until you turn blue... Oct 4, 2014 - 1:30 AM jesse09 Alright I tried the process you said and for sure ... Oct 4, 2014 - 6:06 PM
jordisonjr QUOTE (jesse09 @ Oct 4, 2014 - 6:06 ... Oct 4, 2014 - 6:40 PM kevin311 ^ I second that. It'll save you money later to... Oct 4, 2014 - 6:48 PM jesse09 Just wanted to say thanks again for the help. Fina... Oct 13, 2014 - 8:01 PM kevin311 Glad to help you get back on the road Oct 17, 2014 - 6:49 AM |
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