Hello All,
I've been browsing the boards these past few weeks since I began the search for a landcruiser. Lots of great info. I been doing ALOT of searching especially today due to the info below.
I found a red 97 landcruiser with 127,000 in olympia and brought home my first landcruiser tuesday and have noticed a few things that worry me.
1. The coolant in the overflow bottle is brown with little sludge particulates that are thick and spongy but not solid. No oil sheen. Does it ever seperate if there is oil in the coolant?
2. The oil is a half quart low.
3. The radiator was a quart low.
4. I hear water moving through the heat exchanger when I am driving sometimes which I think would indicate air is present or being introduced into the system.
5. At operating temp I checked for bubbles in the overflow tank at 3k rpm and sometimes there are a few bubbles (4-6), and sometimes there are none. I did the test about 7 times, the first few I did for a second or two then the rest for 3 seconds except last time which was 10 seconds (no bubbles the last time).
6. I have smelled the exhaust numerous times and I only smell a VERY faint smell, unsure whether it is coolant.
7. There is white smoke on startup but nothing that I would think would be anything other than normal condensation. It disappears after warm-up. I haven't checked if it smokes at higher rpm.
First off to bring everyone up to speed, I haven't paid for the vehicle yet and I don't have the title, the process was delayed due to my lender and I took home the vehicle because the seller already left (we were at his lender) me with the keys while I was on hold with my lender to make sure everything was in order. Turned out they needed another document, so his lender gave me my check back, and I drove the vehicle home as I had no way to contact the seller as he wouldn't be home until later that night.
I ordered the blackstone sample kit, but they indicate 2-3 weeks to get the jar.
I went to sears to purchase the coolant system pressure gauge but they were out of stock.
Thoughts? I apologize for another addition to the already many HG threads on this board, I need some advice.
Thanks,
Aharon
I've been browsing the boards these past few weeks since I began the search for a landcruiser. Lots of great info. I been doing ALOT of searching especially today due to the info below.
I found a red 97 landcruiser with 127,000 in olympia and brought home my first landcruiser tuesday and have noticed a few things that worry me.
1. The coolant in the overflow bottle is brown with little sludge particulates that are thick and spongy but not solid. No oil sheen. Does it ever seperate if there is oil in the coolant?
2. The oil is a half quart low.
3. The radiator was a quart low.
4. I hear water moving through the heat exchanger when I am driving sometimes which I think would indicate air is present or being introduced into the system.
5. At operating temp I checked for bubbles in the overflow tank at 3k rpm and sometimes there are a few bubbles (4-6), and sometimes there are none. I did the test about 7 times, the first few I did for a second or two then the rest for 3 seconds except last time which was 10 seconds (no bubbles the last time).
6. I have smelled the exhaust numerous times and I only smell a VERY faint smell, unsure whether it is coolant.
7. There is white smoke on startup but nothing that I would think would be anything other than normal condensation. It disappears after warm-up. I haven't checked if it smokes at higher rpm.
First off to bring everyone up to speed, I haven't paid for the vehicle yet and I don't have the title, the process was delayed due to my lender and I took home the vehicle because the seller already left (we were at his lender) me with the keys while I was on hold with my lender to make sure everything was in order. Turned out they needed another document, so his lender gave me my check back, and I drove the vehicle home as I had no way to contact the seller as he wouldn't be home until later that night.
I ordered the blackstone sample kit, but they indicate 2-3 weeks to get the jar.
I went to sears to purchase the coolant system pressure gauge but they were out of stock.
Thoughts? I apologize for another addition to the already many HG threads on this board, I need some advice.
Thanks,
Aharon