After changing my power steering high pressure hose this past Saturday, I verified that radiator fluid was topped off but the reservoir was very low. On On thur while driving about 2 mi the temperature indicator spiked to max temp. As this happend once before and it turned out to be a faulty temp probe. I ignored it and drove an additional 15 mi. Upon comeing to a stop the car stalled and began to smoke and leak fuilds (a watery oily mix). After the car cooled down I inspected the oil level and radiator. Both were now low. The radiator liquid once green in color on Sat was now grey and no liquid level was visible. After adding about 1.5 qt of oil and 2 qt of radiator fulid, I saterted the car and it seems to run fine. However, condensation steam was coming out of the exhaust pipe and about 15 min later the engine thermostat spiked again. Any ideas????
Oct 30, 2009 at 8:08 AM