My '93 ES300 has had a problem causing overheating in certain situations
(long trips) About six months ago, I took the car in and the mechanic
flushed the radiator and replaced the thermostat. The car has been working
fine up until yesterday, when I took a trip up to a major metropolitan area
on a hot day and had to pull over several times due to temp gauge shooting
up. On shorter trip (up to 30 miles) the temperature does just fine. I'm
going to take it in next week, but I was just wondering if there was
anything I could check myself before doing so. Car has plenty of antifreeze
and oil.
Ray O - 28 May 2006 19:17 GMT
> My '93 ES300 has had a problem causing overheating in certain situations
> (long trips) About six months ago, I took the car in and the mechanic
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> wondering if there was anything I could check myself before doing so. Car
> has plenty of antifreeze and oil.
Make sure that the electric cooling fans are working properly, that the
coolant has the proper mix, and that the timing belt is not beyond its
replacement interval.

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Xplant - 28 May 2006 20:07 GMT
> My '93 ES300 has had a problem causing overheating in certain situations
> (long trips) About six months ago, I took the car in and the mechanic
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> wondering if there was anything I could check myself before doing so. Car
> has plenty of antifreeze and oil.
Check to see if coolant level is being maintained. If not, you may have
leak in radiator seam. Check along edge of top/core seem for evidence of
fluid leak.
Leak causes loss of pressure which lowers boiling point and allow fluid to
boil off.
Happened on my SC400 a few years back.
Xplant
johnin - 29 May 2006 01:55 GMT
Well if you got new
-coollant
-new thermosta
-i would check the cooling fans and see if they come on after
-the vehicle is warmed u
-also change the rad cap a faulty rad cap can cause overheating
if its still overheating i would take it to a shop that carie
a coollant analizer specifically made to check combustable gases in coollant
that will tell you if you have any small head gasket leakes ocuring
in your case lets hope not. if the head gasket is fine on the car then i would
suspect you have a partially clogged radiater. ok but your wise to take it in
because that overheating not only overheats an engine but also can overheat
the automatic transmission as well Oh ye
since there are bottom rad coolant lines that run t
the automatic transmission for coolling it
if the tranny doesent get enough supply of coollant circullating
it or that coollants temperature is way to hot to cooll it. you can bet
your gonna start doing some harm on it and shortening its life span
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johnin