OK guys. I've got a little beater toyota corolla while the T/A is in the air and It's giving me some headaches. It was having overheating probs and leaking coolent( I should have carfaxed the darn thing)Someone before me put stop leak in it. I replaced the hoses and the radiator and now... holy cow.
I turnd the motor to continue filling the cooling system and I got STEAM!!!! The thing had been sitting for 3 days and I got steam with a quick turn of the key!!!!! WTF I have dumped about 2 gal of coolent into it and sill steaming and it actually "boiled over" Nothings hot the rad, the hoses, the BLOCK! and to top it all off the POS won't even start!!! and that has new cap, roter, wires and plugs!!! The starter will turn, there is gas in the tank and I got a wiff of it when I decided to try to start it even if I killed the starter!!! What could I do!! I've had to work on this thing in my work's parking lot and am waiting for the cop's to tow it!!! I need help fast (before it's towed.. cuse if I coulds afford that I would have done that already!)

 

At first I was going to say blown water pump. But, after you mentioned "stop-leak" and "won't start", I am now going to say blown head gasket and water-filled cylinders. I had the same thing happen to me with my old 84 Merc. Some idiot had put stop-leak in it to stop a leak from where the intake manifold gasket was not put on right (small leak, really, and not worth a can of stop-leak)...anyway, a month or so after I got the car, BAM!...whitesmoke from the exhaust and blown head gasket. You could see where the stop-leak had accumulated around the holes in the gasket where water is SUPPOSED to flow...

IMO, stop-leak is like cholestrol...avoid at all costs....

 

That thought had crossed my mind too but no smoke (when it was running and the oil's clean.. The stop leak build up was at the bottom of the radiator (Where it was "supposed" to be). Last time I let my g/f's mom tell me that she knew the guy maintained his cars.




I agree 110% unless your over 20 miles away and then it's only a very,very temp fix

 

Well you and my gut were right. I tried to start the pos again and this time I just got a funny feeling and decided to check out the muffler and well... it was green damn rice Gotta go buy another one I guess... Thanks