Red gel in engine bay

[smithytailor]

Hey folks, this is my first time posting here. Just got a 98 cruiser last week. I'm pretty excited about the platform, but I have a couple of things I want to fix before I put too much work in to making it awesome. Started looking in to my cabin air filter drip and noticed there was a weird goop of sorts in the engine bay. I'm not sure where it is coming from but it looks like it has dripped from somewhere. I took a couple of pictures. The first is from higher up and the second is where some more has dripped further down. The last picture is some that I collected to try and see what it was. I have no clue though. Any ideas?

I'm going to try attaching a link and maybe a direct image link. I'm not sure what works here.

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Thanks!!

 

[ScubaJon]

red goop sounds like dried out coolant. Factory Toyota coolant is red I would check the Radiator and see if its red or green if its green then that is not what it is unless the previous owner changed it recently.

 

[Battleship]

That stuff looks more like a blob of grease. The coolant dries into pink crusty stuff. Having said that, I don't know what it is, but I'd just clean it off and make sure it didn't keep showing up. Except for the blob, that is nice clean engine.

 

[2001LC]

Welcome to mud and congrats on your new 100.

I agree with @Buckey clean and watch.

You may not be aware the 100 series have six grease zerks:
Although I've not seen it sling in that area before. It may have shot off a grease gun or slung off the forward spider joint (AKA u-joint), after lubing. You have four spider joints on propeller shafts (AKA aft & forward drive shafts) plus one grease zerk on each propeller shaft slip yoke. Slide under your rig and take a look (rear spider is easiest to see), to see if they've been greased. Properly maintained 100, they are lubed ever 5K miles. The old grease and excesses new slings off leaving caked on grease around them.

 

[smithytailor]

Thanks for the help! I wiped the gel off and will be keeping a lookout for any more.