A little back story. Purchased the vehicle and looking back i should have exercised a bit more due dilligence. California LC up until 3 years ago. Only 3 midwest winters. Toyota mechanic did a brief inspection and gave the thumbs up on it for pre-purchase inspection.
167k - last owner replaced radiator
231,800 - i purchased
232,100 - i replaced radiator in Cincinnati as it was leaking (not gushing, but dripping)
232,300 - new leak, took to local shop in Indy and they identified that it was a bad radiator. new radiator is installed, brought home today.
Spoke with mechanic and asked him if he saw anything concerning that would hint the head gasket is going to go sometime soon. He said no. He did note the white smoke and mentioned something about the rings.
I told him how the radiator problems have me paranoid along with reading the MUD forums. He told me to bring back in a week for a block test/head gasket inspection. He said new antifreeze/exhaust need to run for a week before they would want to do an accurate assesment.
Light white smoke upon initial start up. Water/liquid coming out of back tail pipe. My drive way is on a slight hill. No milkshake build up any time since i purchased. No bubbling of the antifreeze overflow. No problems with rough idle or bad MPG. No real loss of power but i don't gas it too hard as i try to maintain good mpg.
Throughout my radiator issues in my brief 2 weeks of ownership, the temp guage never got above half way point.
Thoughts? Advice.
Not sure why i took pics of oil when the radiator and antifreeze was just put in today. don't think it would have time to mix so soon.
167k - last owner replaced radiator
231,800 - i purchased
232,100 - i replaced radiator in Cincinnati as it was leaking (not gushing, but dripping)
232,300 - new leak, took to local shop in Indy and they identified that it was a bad radiator. new radiator is installed, brought home today.
Spoke with mechanic and asked him if he saw anything concerning that would hint the head gasket is going to go sometime soon. He said no. He did note the white smoke and mentioned something about the rings.
I told him how the radiator problems have me paranoid along with reading the MUD forums. He told me to bring back in a week for a block test/head gasket inspection. He said new antifreeze/exhaust need to run for a week before they would want to do an accurate assesment.
Light white smoke upon initial start up. Water/liquid coming out of back tail pipe. My drive way is on a slight hill. No milkshake build up any time since i purchased. No bubbling of the antifreeze overflow. No problems with rough idle or bad MPG. No real loss of power but i don't gas it too hard as i try to maintain good mpg.
Throughout my radiator issues in my brief 2 weeks of ownership, the temp guage never got above half way point.
Thoughts? Advice.
Not sure why i took pics of oil when the radiator and antifreeze was just put in today. don't think it would have time to mix so soon.