So I bought a 89Fj62 last week. I drove it around some over the weekend but not much. I decided to park my 91 Toy Pickup today and drive the cruiser to work this morning.
On the way home it started to overheat. I was kinda freaking out about how quickly it started to overheat and go all the way to the red. We are talking a couple miles down the road, two stop lights.
So a lady in front of me stops short and I slam on what up until then were my brakes. I narrowly averted hitting her in the ass. I turned off and immediately noticed no breaks.
Needless to say I had some choice words to spit at fate.
When I opended the hood I noticed the top right rad hose going to the top of the engine was squished flat, kinked so to speak. I figured the hose was hosed and I would be able to ease her home later. I pretty much assumed the master cylinder took a nose dive as I could not see any break fluid leaking anywhere.
After the wife picks me up and takes me home for dinner, we stop by the auto parts store, snag a rad hose and its back to the parking lot where I left the stationary cruiser.
I changed the hose and drove home, I had some breaks but not much. Less than two miles down the road she was overheating again. I was not driving above 40mph at any time. When I got home the brand new radiator hose was again squezed flat. Does that indicate there is a block somewhere? What are the obvious things to look into. I am going to use the break failure as a reason to upgrade to the T100/4Runner MC and calipers. I can't stand weak brakes. Any help you can provide would be super. I am getting some unwanted comments from the 
as to whether I am up the creek w/ out a paddle on my new Toy!
On the way home it started to overheat. I was kinda freaking out about how quickly it started to overheat and go all the way to the red. We are talking a couple miles down the road, two stop lights.
So a lady in front of me stops short and I slam on what up until then were my brakes. I narrowly averted hitting her in the ass. I turned off and immediately noticed no breaks.
Needless to say I had some choice words to spit at fate. When I opended the hood I noticed the top right rad hose going to the top of the engine was squished flat, kinked so to speak. I figured the hose was hosed and I would be able to ease her home later. I pretty much assumed the master cylinder took a nose dive as I could not see any break fluid leaking anywhere.
After the wife picks me up and takes me home for dinner, we stop by the auto parts store, snag a rad hose and its back to the parking lot where I left the stationary cruiser.
I changed the hose and drove home, I had some breaks but not much. Less than two miles down the road she was overheating again. I was not driving above 40mph at any time. When I got home the brand new radiator hose was again squezed flat. Does that indicate there is a block somewhere? What are the obvious things to look into. I am going to use the break failure as a reason to upgrade to the T100/4Runner MC and calipers. I can't stand weak brakes. Any help you can provide would be super. I am getting some unwanted comments from the as to whether I am up the creek w/ out a paddle on my new Toy!
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