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v6 losing water

Old Mar 21, 2009 | 08:08 PM
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v6 losing water

my 89 v6 is loseing water some were but dont know were from ,no oil in water but it has a ruff idle like water is getting injected with the fuel
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Old Mar 21, 2009 | 08:11 PM
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with nothing else to go on, I'd say head gasket.
have you taken the radiator cap off and looked for bubbles?
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Old Mar 21, 2009 | 08:21 PM
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it bubbles big ones not small ones and on oil in water the guy I got it from just had some one replace the valve cover gaskets and radiator toyota did the head gaskets in 89
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Old Mar 21, 2009 | 08:26 PM
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losing water and bubbles in the radiator are 95% head gasket caused.
...sorry....
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Old Mar 21, 2009 | 08:34 PM
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x2 on head gasket
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Old Mar 21, 2009 | 08:54 PM
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Head gaskets are fun on the 3.0!!! Enjoy!
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Old Mar 21, 2009 | 08:57 PM
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Sounds like a HG. Do a pressure test of the cooling system. Make sure its the HG.
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Old Mar 22, 2009 | 12:34 AM
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much mahalos guys well who makes a good repair manual to do this job?
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Old Mar 22, 2009 | 01:51 AM
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Toyota... repair manual for model year 89 to 95.

Yeah, those 3.0 HG blows out at #1 and #6 everytime.

I just did a 91 HG last week. it's a big job. and sorry yours fell victim to that.

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