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SoonerAcesUp
6/22/2007, 01:56 PM
A couple of weeks ago my truck ('93 Toyota) started losing coolant and I can't figure out where in the world it is going. It leaves no puddles on the ground. I took it to my uncle who is a mechanic and he put pressure through it and found no real problems. He replaced the radiator cap and a couple of small water hoses. He said it wasn't the head gasket. So I'm kind of stumped because after the few changes that he made it has done it again. I know very little about anything under the hood of a vehicle so anybody have any clue what it might be? Figured I might as well ask here because I've asked everybody else I know. TIA.
C&CDean
6/22/2007, 02:06 PM
Check the oil. If it's milky, it's leaking into the crankcase.
SoonerAcesUp
6/22/2007, 02:12 PM
Check the oil. If it's milky, it's leaking into the crankcase.


Nope, I've checked that too and the oil isn't milky.
C&CDean
6/22/2007, 02:17 PM
Is there any white smoke in the exhaust?
SoonerAcesUp
6/22/2007, 02:21 PM
Is there any white smoke in the exhaust?

Nope
olevetonahill
6/22/2007, 02:24 PM
Get your uncle to put some dye in the radiator drive a few miles and check it with a black lite
BlondeSoonerGirl
6/22/2007, 02:25 PM
Nope

Well then some hillbilly is siphoning your antifreeze out at night while you sleep.

:les: YEEE HAW!!!
SoonerAcesUp
6/22/2007, 02:29 PM
Get your uncle to put some dye in the radiator drive a few miles and check it with a black lite

I'll ask him to do that.
SoonerAcesUp
6/22/2007, 02:31 PM
Well then some hillbilly is siphoning your antifreeze out at night while you sleep.

:les: YEEE HAW!!!

Knowing some of our neighbors, I can't exclude that as a possibility!;)
OUHOMER
6/22/2007, 05:53 PM
We have a forklift that does this. we think it is a small hole in the radiator. pressure test on it COLD and it test fine. When its hot it has a slight pressure loss. Some time we can smell it. But you can't see it because it evaporates because its hot.
StoopTroup
6/22/2007, 06:33 PM
I bet your muffler bearing is worn out.
olevetonahill
6/22/2007, 06:57 PM
We have a forklift that does this. we think it is a small hole in the radiator. pressure test on it COLD and it test fine. When its hot it has a slight pressure loss. Some time we can smell it. But you can't see it because it evaporates because its hot.
Put some dye in it Damnit
DrZaius
6/22/2007, 07:06 PM
Well then some hillbilly is siphoning your antifreeze out at night while you sleep.

:les: YEEE HAW!!!

Probably someone from FEXAS too!
Tulsa_Fireman
6/23/2007, 12:36 PM
Did he check the automatic coolant leveling bushing?
Turd_Ferguson
6/23/2007, 01:28 PM
Centrifugal wobble bar bearing has seized up.....I'd put money on it.
Shamrock
6/23/2007, 04:38 PM
I think he has a coolant leak into his blinker fluid reservoir.
InTexasandImStuck
6/23/2007, 07:35 PM
A couple of weeks ago my truck ('93 Toyota) .

In there in lies the problem.