Overheating

[Mux213]

Hey Wouter,

Are you sure you don't just have a small leak somewhere and you've just lost to much water the last few months? Or maybe that it just never was filled properly?

Unless your engine starts cooking you shouldn't be loosing water all of a sudden causing you to have to fill it up.

As for blown head gaskets, to my knowladge, if there is enough water in the system, and the water hasn't reach boiling point you should be alright. I had my DeLorean overheat due to a faulty thermostat and stopped the engine just at the moment it started boiling, no perminant damage and these engine's destroy themselves the minute they get to hot.

Interestingly enough, my most noteworthy experience was with my sister and her Starlet. She had a radiator leak and it lost the water slowly, when she went to work one morning she notices the engine getting hot. She just drove it on to work, did her things, started the car, drove back home (25 minute drives), came home, walked over to me and a mate and told us her engine was running hot. So we checked out her car, NOT A DROP OF COOLENT! Filled her up, engine ran fine, 5 days later, engine gets hot again (we never realized it had a leak because it was a small one), drove it to work, drove it back again, again without a single drop of coolent!

Leak was fixed, water was added, engine worked fine until she parked it into some solid object.

Now my guess is that 4AG engines are a little more sensative to heat, but its a cool thing anyways Toyota rocks!